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…
The Department of Biology is excited to announce the three recipients of this year’s Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarships: Hannah Axten of the Ho Lab, Alanna Carey of the Chen Lab, and Yuan Tian of the Man Lab. Hannah studies a member of the forkhead box (FOX) family of transcription factors, FOXR1, and its role in neurodevelopment. Alanna’s research project aims to gain an…
So Young Bae of the Tolan Lab was selected as the winner of the 2023 Denton Award for her master’s research thesis in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (MCBB) titled “Mode of Substrate Binding and Specificity for Ketohexokinase across Isozymes Implies an Induced-Fit Mechanism.” This award is given for excellence in scholarship and research accomplishment during a master’s thesis…
The awardees and honorable mentions for the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition were recently posted and several Biology students were recognized. Biology PhD student Erin Frates of the Marlow Lab, Marine Science BA student Annabel Hughes of the Davies Lab, and Biology PhD student Renata Serio of the Fiszbein Lab were awarded with 3-year graduate research fellowships. Biology PhD student Shalom Entner of the…
Andrea Reboldi, PhD, associate professor of pathology, is one of eight recipients of the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, or PATH, award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a private foundation dedicated to advancing biomedical science by supporting research and education in the United States. “It’s an extreme honor to be part of a community of scientists working on…
Jane Park, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kit Cummins‘ group, was awarded the first place prize in the Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM) of the American Chemical Society’s 2023 Postdoctoral Scholar Poster Competition. Park was awarded for her presentation, which was entitled “The use of a pentaphosphorylating reagent to prepare nucleoside hexa- and heptaphosphates: Experimental and computational studies for their interaction with…
Carolyn Kraus, a PhD candidate in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to study how CRISPR/Cas9 tools can be used to develop a therapeutic for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a degenerative disease…
Dr. Marvin H. Caruthers of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has won the inaugural Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA. The chemical reactions that he discovered in the early 1980s to accurately and quickly assemble nucleotides into strands of DNA provided an essential element in the development of modern molecular…