Photo: Courtesy Yuan-Xiang Tao How can we help the ones we love, when we see them suffering? Yuan-Xiang Tao was motivated to dedicate his career to chronic pain research and developing novel therapeutics early in his youth, after watching his father battle liver cancer. Tao’s father passed away in…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how do you create an image of real-time interactions inside the nervous system? “For the brain and spinal cord, that's a little challenging. Our goal is to shed light on this ‘black box.’ For a very long time, we simply…
Rita Allen Scholar Barbara Wold (1983) elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest honorary societies…
Rita Allen Scholars Sreekanth Chalasani (2012) and Axel Nimmerjahn (2011) received Kavli Grants to buy or build small equipment designed to strengthen research capacity and capability…
Rita Allen Scholar Monica Dus (2016) received the Guggenheim Fellowship for her distinguished achievements and exceptional promise for future accomplishments…
Elissa Hallem wasn’t always immersed in the world of parasitic roundworms. In fact, she spent much of her early research career studying Drosophila, the common fruit fly. Inspired to pursue research after participating in Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth program, Hallem began volunteering in Larry Zipursky’s…
Rita Allen Scholar Ishmail Abdus-Saboor (2020) received a 2022 Seed Award from the Brain Research Foundation for investigating neuronal pathways associated with social touch…
Rita Allen Scholar Arkady Khoutorsky (2017) received a 2022 Early Career Award from the Canadian Pain Society recognizing outstanding achievements in pain research.
Maitreya Dunham gained research experience in many different fields as a student, from genetics to immunology to cancer, but one mighty model organism stuck with her as she set up her own lab to study experimental evolution and genetics: Saccharomyces cerevisiae. “That was one thing about the cancer world…
Carl F. Nathan, R.A. Rees Pritchett Professor and chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the Rita Allen Foundation Board of Directors. Nathan, whose term begins immediately, is one of the world’s premier researchers in immunology and microbiology. His research explores…