Archive for the ‘Director’s Corner’ Category

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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A Year of Changes

October 30, 2013
Steve Elledge, Director of the BSA, reflects on the current state of the Fund

This has been my first year as the Scientific Director and Chair of the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisers. My predecessor, Randy Schekman, asked me to join the board in 2010 and then […]

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A Fond Farewell

September 28, 2012
Randy Schekman, Director of the BSA, reflects on the current state of the Fund

This is my last year as Chair of the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA). Joan Steitz, the former Chair of the BSA, invited me to join the Board in 1993 and then […]

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Tough Times for Federal Funding

September 30, 2011
Randy Schekman, Director of the BSA, reflects on the current state of the Fund

From the National Library of Medicine and the Department of Special Collections and Archives of Stanford University: We have completed our selection of graduate students. It was unusually difficult this year, I thought, because of […]

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More Support from Our Friends

October 1, 2010
Randy Schekman, Director of the BSA, reflects on the current state of the Fund

I am pleased to report continuing success in raising funds to offer more Jane Coffin Childs fellowships. Fortunately, other private and corporate funds share our vision of the importance of fellowship support for the benefit […]

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