Carl Streed, Jr., MD, assistant professor of medicine, is a recipient of a 2023 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst Award from Boston Congress of Public Health. He is part of the second cohort that represents the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, activists, intellectual provocateurs, authors, and directors who inspire and catalyze us all to a more just…
Nicholas Harper, a PhD candidate in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School, has received a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute to study cell death as it relates to cancer therapies. “The goal is to find how to cause cancer cells to die without…
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), a leading non-profit in the fight against pancreatic cancer, has awarded Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers William Freed-Pastor, MD, PhD, and Julien Dilly, MS, research grants of $250,000 and $150,000, respectively over a 2-year period, to support their crucial work in the field of pancreatic cancer research. As the third leading cause of cancer-related death…
ALS Finding a Cure® (ALSFAC) has awarded a $400,000 grant to a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a Boston based private entity Nemdx Inc. (Nemdx), and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy, for their project “Developing a Comprehensive Blood Test for Sporadic and Familial ALS.” Dr. Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, Director of NeuroEpigenetics Laboratory…
Michael Springer, professor of systems biology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by Harvard University. The honor is bestowed no more frequently than every two years to a member of the Harvard community who has made a significant contribution to science. Springer was recognized for developing a streamlined coronavirus testing system used by…
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…