Li-Huei Tsai: Pushing Frontiers to Preserve Memory
A series of bold experiments led Li-Huei Tsai to her career-defining turn toward neuroscience.
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Announcing the 2018 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2018 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, recognizing seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research has the potential to lead to groundbreaking new discoveries and advance human health. The selected Scholars will each receive grants of up to $110,000 annually for a…
Camila dos Santos Awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize
Rita Allen Scholar Camila dos Santos (2016) has won the Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research…
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
Rita Allen Scholars Zachary Knight (2014), Luciano Marraffini (2012) and Samara Reck-Peterson (2009) have been selected as HHMI Investigators…
Moving Science Forward: Ron Vale Shares the Marvels of Cellular Motion, Brings Biology to New Audiences
From his earliest experiments, Ron Vale has investigated the movements that make life possible: the productive growth of plants, the division of cells, and the transit of signals through the long axons of neurons. His work, both within the laboratory and beyond, is marked by a persistent…
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects RAF Scholars Susan Dymecki (1999; SAC member) and Christopher Walsh (1993)…
Celebrating Women in Science
A salute to the leadership, passion and discoveries of pioneering Rita Allen Foundation Scholars…
Lloyd Trotman: Transforming Views of Prostate Cancer
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…
Sebastian Klinge Captures New View of Cell’s Protein-Making Machinery
A new study by Sebastian Klinge (2014 RAF Scholar) elucidates the assembly of the ribosome, the protein-making machine of the cell.
Announcing the 2018 Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain Scholars
Tenth class of early-career pain researchers to investigate key regulators of pain signaling, inform new therapeutic strategies The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, recognizing emerging leaders in…