Lloyd Trotman found his calling as an experimental scientist during a “very intense” organic chemistry course as an undergraduate at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Lloyd Trotman (Photo: Constance Brukin/CSHL) “You had to do this combination of good hands-on execution of techniques and reading…
Tae Hoon Kim began his training in bioinformatics before the term even entered common usage. As a college intern in the early 1990s at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, he learned state-of-the-art computational methods for analyzing DNA sequences. His work contributed to a new understanding…
Titia de Lange (1995 RAF Scholar) will receive the 2017 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research.
Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators: New York area-based cancer researchers are invited to apply by 11/6.
Peter Reddien delights in reviving what he calls “one of the grand problems of biology.” He applies modern molecular tools to study regeneration in planarian flatworms—a phenomenon first documented by scientists as early as 1766. These freshwater creatures, which are a few millimeters long, can replace a…
Johanna Joyce’s first task as a research scientist was to clone a chicken gene. This was in the 1990s, when she was an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin. At the time, she says, “cloning a gene was a big deal—it seems trivial now.” Johanna Joyce(Photo: Brian…
Adrian Salic spent many hours of his childhood tinkering with a microscope alongside his grandfather, a retired physician. He recalls sifting through a collection of old histology slides, gazing at the varied structures of healthy and diseased human tissues. Adrian Salic(Photo: Courtesy of Adrian Salic) He…
From his earliest days in the laboratory, Joel Pomerantz got caught up in “the thrill that you can actually discover new things with your own hands, with your own mind.” As an undergraduate at Brandeis University, he spent a summer learning how to detect biochemical changes that enable…
Camila dos Santos (2016 RAF Scholar) and colleagues have found a potential target for killing breast cancer cells—a protein important for stem cell self-renewal.
Joshua Mendell launched his research career with a junior high science fair project on DNA mutation rates in bacteria. A graduate student who worked with his father, Jerry Mendell, a neurologist at The Ohio State University, assisted him with his project and taught him the basics of molecular…