Craig Ceol, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine, has received an award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to fund research on cellular and molecular regulators of melanocyte regeneration using zebrafish as a model. Melanocytes are cells responsible for both the pigmentation of zebrafish stripes and human skin and where melanoma originates. According to Dr. Ceol, the…
Jillian Belgrad, an MD/PhD student at UMass Chan Medical School, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study the pathology that drives the development of Huntington’s disease symptoms. Huntington’s disease is a rare genetic condition that damages nerve cells in the brain and causes uncontrolled movements…
Whitehead Institute Member Siniša Hrvatin has been named as one of the 15 researchers to be selected as 2023 Searle Scholars. The Searle Scholars Program supports the research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry. Chosen by an advisory board of eminent scientists, Searle Scholars are considered among the most creative researchers pursuing careers in academic research.…
Whitehead Institute Member Yukiko Yamashita has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS). Election to the membership of AAAS — an independent policy organization with initiatives in science, arts, democracy, education, and global affairs — is one of the nation’s most prestigious recognitions of highly accomplished individuals. The 2023 class of AAAS members…
Kathrin (Kat) Kajderowicz, a research assistant in the lab of Whitehead Institute Member Siniša Hrvatin and graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named a recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship provides merit-based support for the graduate school programs of highly promising immigrants and children of immigrants.…
Biology PhD student, Anne-Marie Abban-Demitrus, recently received a $25,000 International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This fellowship provides support for women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the United States to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and who intend to return to their home country to pursue a professional career.
Athma A. Pai, PhD, assistant professor of RNA therapeutics, was awarded a nearly $1 million CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use new high-throughput genomics approaches to study the regulation of mRNA splicing. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who…
William Hahn, MD, PhD, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of three exceptional individuals honored by Hope Funds with its 2023 Award of Excellence in the areas of Basic Science and Medicine. The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Newport, RI on July 15, 2023. The Award of Excellence honors those who have…
Professor Mei Hong has been selected by the Protein Society as the winner of the 2023 Christian B. Anfinsen Award. This prize recognizes technological achievement or significant methodological advances in the field of protein science. Hong has been honored for her creation of innovative tools to interrogate protein structure and dynamics using solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Hong will be conferred at the Society’s 37th Anniversary Symposium in…
Harvard Medical School neurobiologist Michael Greenberg has won The Brain Prize 2023 for his lifelong research into brain plasticity: the ability of the organ to change, adapt, and learn over time. Greenberg, who is the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, shares the award with Christine Holt, professor of developmental neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, and with Erin…