Elena Gracheva Finds That Hibernating Rodents Feel Less Cold
Elena Gracheva (2013 RAF Scholar) and colleagues have discovered a neural basis for hibernating rodents’ reduced cold sensitivity.
Elena Gracheva (2013 RAF Scholar) and colleagues have discovered a neural basis for hibernating rodents’ reduced cold sensitivity.
Susan Dymecki, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, has been named to the Rita Allen Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee. The Committee consists of leading scientists and clinicians from outstanding research institutions. Drawing on their collective experiences in medical discovery and development, members of the Committee…
Monica Dus (2016 RAF Scholar) hosts a new podcast about what makes scientists tick.
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…
Three Rita Allen Foundation Scholars have received awards from the National Institutes of Health for their proposals “to use highly innovative approaches to tackle major challenges in biomedical research.” Jeffrey Macklis (a 1991 Scholar, as well as a member of the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee) and…
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:…
Luciano Marraffini (2012 RAF Scholar) will share the Albany Medical Center Prize for development of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing system.