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Dr. Stephen Elledge wins the 2015 Lasker Award

December 10, 2015

Director of the Board of Scientific Advisors recognized for DNA-damage response discoveries

Director of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund’s Board of Scientific Advisors, Dr. Stephen Elledge, was awarded the 2015 Lasker Award for his discoveries related to the DNA-damage response in cells. He shares the award […]

Dr. Susan Froshauer leads Connecticut United for Research Excellence

December 10, 2015

CURE serves as the bioscience cluster of Connecticut, a diverse community of small and large life and healthcare sciences companies, ranging in scope from therapeutics, to healthcare technology, to medical devices.

Representative Lonnie Reed, Commissioner Catherine Smith and Dr. Susan Froshauer at a recent Bioscience ClubhouseCT funded by CTNext. (Photo by missionbranding.com) Last spring, Connecticut’s leaders in biosciences – from academics to entrepreneurs – attended the […]

Research and Achievements (2015)

October 1, 2015

Past and present JCC Fellows and BSA members make the news

Here are some updates for the past year. Share your publications, awards, and career news at jccfund@yale.edu. Tom Cohen, JCC Fellow 2012-2015 at Washington University in St. Louis, co-founded Nanopore Diagnostics and became its CEO. […]

Peter Kim joins the Board of Scientific Advisors

July 30, 2015

The JCC welcomes Peter Kim to the BSA this year. I have thought very highly of the Jane Coffin Childs organization for many years, and certainly believe in its mission to identify and support the […]

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 […]