Tuan Trang Identifies Drug That Alleviates Opioid Withdrawal
2014 RAF Scholar Tuan Trang and his team have identified an existing anti-gout drug that can alleviate opioid withdrawal symptoms in rodents.
Archive: Rita Allen Scholars
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Advance Understanding of Nervous Systems in Health and Disease
Several Rita Allen Scholars have forged new approaches to studying parasite neurobiology, neural plasticity, spinal cord cells and persistent pain with support from the Foundation. To celebrate their achievements, we share these summaries as their multiyear awards conclude. Elissa Hallem, University of California, Los Angeles…
Li-Huei Tsai Receives Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award
1996 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Li-Huei Tsai has received the Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award.
David Tuveson Named Director of CSHL Cancer Center
2004 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar David Tuveson has been named Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center.
Bo Li Wins Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
2016 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Bo Li has received a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering…
2016 Scholar’s Neuroscience Research Featured on NPR
A report about research on sugar’s effect on the brain by 2016 Scholar Monica Dus was featured on NPR…
Foundation Scholars Earn NIH Award for Innovative, High-Impact Projects
Two Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, Monica Dus and Sebastian Klinge, have received a 2016 NIH New Innovator Award…
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Celebrate 40 Years of Exploration and Discovery
This July, members of an outstanding group of biomedical scientists came together for the first time to learn about one another’s work and discuss broader issues affecting the future of scientific discovery. Since 1976, scientists at the early stages of their careers have been selected as Rita Allen Foundation Scholars,…
Hilary Coller: When Cells Sleep
Hilary Coller caught the biomedical research bug early—as a junior high school student she took part in research that resulted in a first-author scientific publication. Coauthored with her father Barry Coller, a blood and vascular biologist at The Rockefeller University, the paper explored a…
Senthil Muthuswamy: Tackling Cancer in Three Dimensions
In 1990, Senthil Muthuswamy was a young graduate student in biology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He had just moved to Canada from his native India after completing a bachelor’s degree in agricultural sciences at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and a master’s degree in genetics at…