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.
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)…
Biochemist Peter Kim has explored how the twists, turns and movements of molecules conspire to produce stunning biological effects. He has also made some radical shifts in his own career, including shutting down his lab for 12 years to serve as a pharmaceutical executive. Now, Kim says, he’s…
Neuroscientist Tuan Trang (2014 RAF Scholar) has won two prestigious awards for studies on chronic pain and alternatives to opioids.
David Prober (2010 RAF Scholar) and his team have shown how a protein in the brain regulates sleep in response to light.
Inside Philanthropy article highlights RAF’s Scholars program and the intrinsic connection between science and democracy…
Early-career biomedical scientists to explore mechanisms of memory, injury and immunity in the nervous system and beyond The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2017 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to…
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.