Archive for the ‘Fund News’ Category

Dr. Joan Steitz Wins Lasker Award

January 14, 2019
Former JCC Board of Scientific Advisors Chair was honored for her discoveries in RNA biology

Dr. Joan Steitz, former Jane Coffin Childs Fellow and former Chair of the Fund, was recently honored with the prestigious Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science “for four decades of leadership in biomedical science […]

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Understanding fetal demise after Zika infection

January 14, 2019
Board of Scientific Advisors member, Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, published the study in Science Immunology

Caption: When human placental tissue (fluorescence microscopy image shown) is exposed to interferon-β, it develops syncytial knots, which appear as protruding bulges, not seen in healthy tissue. Credit: Yockey et al., Science Immunology (2018) Dr. […]

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Q&A: Dr. Sue Biggins reflects on her study of the kinetochore

January 14, 2019
This critical structure holds chromosomes to microtubules during cell division

Caption: Chromosomes (stained red) align and attach to microtubules (green) in the mitotic spindle before cell division. Credit: Jason Stumpff Dr. Sue Biggins, a new member of the Board of Scientific Advisors, was the first […]

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A Letter from the Chair

November 2, 2018
Dr. Bonnie Bassler leads the Board of Scientific Advisors

Caption: Dr. Bonnie Bassler. Photo Credit: Alena Soboleva   Hello JCC Fellows, Scientific Board Members, and Friends, I am delighted to be the new Chair of the Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA). I look forward […]

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