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Since 1976, the Rita Allen Foundation has awarded millions of dollars in grants to early-career biomedical scholars. These grants allow Rita Allen Foundation Scholars to establish labs and pursue research directions with above-average risk and promise. See below for a full list of Scholars, or read more about the Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program.

2000

Yukiko Goda
RIKEN Brain Science Institute (University of California, San Diego; University College London)
Gregory J. Hannon +
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Gregory J. Hannon

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Gregory Hannon is Senior Group Leader of the CRUK Cambridge Institute and Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology and a Wellcome Trust Investigator at the University of Cambridge. He is a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, an Associate Core Member and Director of Cancer Genomics at the New York Genome Center, and an Adjunct Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He obtained a B.A. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the same institution. His work focuses on the roles of small RNAs, the biology of cancer cells, and the mammalian genome as revealed through next-generation sequencing. Hannon received the 2007 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology and the 2007 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in May 2012.
Michael P. Rout
The Rockefeller University
Samuel Wang +
Princeton University

Samuel Wang

An alumnus of the California Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. with honor in physics, Samuel Wang went on to earn a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1994. He conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University and then Bell Labs Lucent Technologies. In the mid-1990s, he also worked on science and education policy for the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Wang joined the Princeton faculty in 2000. He is the recipient of National Science Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Young Investigator Awards. He has written two books: Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life, and Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College. Wang is also noted for developing statistical methods to analyze U.S. presidential election polls with unusually high accuracy. He is a member of the Rita Allen Foundation Board of Directors.

Wang’s research focuses on the cerebellum’s role in cognition and social thought processes, and he uses advanced imaging methods to search for clues to the causes of autism.

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