Archive for 2014

An Exciting Year

October 30, 2014
Steve Elledge, Director of the BSA, reflects on the current state of the Fund

This year, my second as the Scientific Director and Chair of the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisors, has been an exciting one for the program. Randy Schekman, our previous Scientific Director, won the […]

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Research & Achievements (2014)

October 30, 2014
Past and present JCC Fellows and BSA members make the news

Share your publications, awards, and news at jccfund@yale.edu. World-renowned geneticist, Columbia University faculty member, and former JCC Fellow Marian Carlson was named the director of the Simons Foundation in 2013. She served as president of […]

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Cori Bargmann leads President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative

May 30, 2014

Last June, JCC Board of Scientific Advisors member Cori Bargmann presented an ambitious plan for the future of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative to the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee. The plan, drafted by the BRAIN Working Group, […]

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