Molly Frank of the Lobel Lab, Noah Singer of the Rotjan and Novak Labs, and Michelle Feivelson are this year’s recipients of the Robert E. Hausman Scholarship for continuing MS students. Molly completed her undergraduate degree in conservation biology and zoology in the Midwest, where she worked on a fresh water limnology research project for the Iowa DNR after graduating.…
Koch Institute faculty members Michael Birnbaum, Ömer Yilmaz, Brandon DeKosky and Regina Barzilay, along with their MIT colleague Seychelle Vos, have been selected for the final stages of Cancer Grand Challenges as part of teams MATCHMAKERS, PROSPECT and KOODAC. If selected, these interdisciplinary, global teams may receive up to $25m to make radical progress against some of cancer’s toughest challenges.…
The Gray Foundation today announced $25 million in funding for 7 research teams to study new approaches for prevention, early detection, and interception of BRCA-related cancers. The new grants are part of the Foundation’s ongoing Team Science program, which funds innovative BRCA-related collaborative research. For this cycle, the research teams were selected from more than 55 applications through an extensive…
Pamela Garcia Lopez of the Siggers Lab recently received the Kilachand Doctoral Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded by the Multicellular Design Program (MDP), which combines research in Synthetic Biology, Microbial Engineering, Tissue Engineering, Data Science, and Biophysics to understand the design principles of multicellular systems. The mission of MDP, which is funded through the Rajen Kilachand Fund, is to understand the underlying design…
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children worldwide, accounting for 14% of deaths among those under age five. Although pneumonia can arise from either bacterial or viral infection, reliable methods of diagnosing young children are invasive and expensive, frequently putting timely diagnosis out of reach of patients in low- and middle-income countries. Furthermore, new, simpler detection tools will…
The Ragon Institute is thrilled to announce the receipt of a generous gift from the Giuliani Foundation to establish the Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani Endowed Faculty Support Fund — a permanent endowment that will support Ragon faculty who are pursuing research in human health and the immune system. The Giulianis’ exceptional contribution will fuel our ongoing endeavors at the Ragon…
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) has elected Whitehead Institute Member Iain Cheeseman as a Fellow of the Society. An honor bestowed by his scientific peers, the selection as an ASCB Fellow recognizes Cheeseman’s decades of research achievements and his continuing efforts to advance the field of cell biology. Discoveries by Cheeseman, who is also professor of biology at…
Doctoral researcher Anaïs Tsai and Whitehead Institute director Ruth Lehmann are recipients of a 2023 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study. The Gilliam Fellowship — which is awarded jointly to graduate students and their advisors — invests in young researchers from populations historically excluded and underrepresented in science, so that they are prepared to become scientific leaders.…
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced today the 2023 laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, the largest unrestricted scientific award for America’s most innovative, faculty-ranked scientists and engineers who are under the age of 42. Two Dana-Farber faculty members are among the finalists: Cigall Kadoch, PhD, in the Life Sciences category, and…
Ayush Kumar, an MD/PhD student at UMass Chan Medical School, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute to study triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive type of breast cancer and one that disproportionately affects Black women. A number of breast cancer therapies target three receptors: those for the hormones estrogen and progesterone…