Nominate Exceptional Research Advocates for the 2025 Advocacy Awards! researchamerica.org/advocacy-award… Research!America’s Advocacy Awards honorees are committed to putting research and innovation to work to find the solutions to what ails us.

Register now for this webinar with Lisa Kirkwood: Streamlining Cell and Gene Therapy Scalability: Progress Towards a Gold Standard on Monday, May 13, 2024: workcast.com/register?cpak=…

Congratulations to Erin Kara, a member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, who has been recognized with the Edgerton Award at MIT. news.mit.edu/2024/erin-kara…

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All nominations for the 2025 Hilton Humanitarian Prize must be submitted online tomorrow, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. PDT. hiltonfoundation.org/humanitarian-p…

Announcing the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize winners 🌎🏆

Discover their stories: goldmanprize.org

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The New York Academy of Medicine Welcomes New SVP for Research: Kathryn T. Hall, PhD, MPH t.e2ma.net/message/as7njj…

How Rosalind Franklin was let down by DNA’s dysfunctional team: The story of how the structure of DNA was found is one of team science from which one member was unforgivably excluded. nature.com/articles/d4158… #DNADay #DNADay 2024 #DNADay 24

It’s #DNAday ! Canada applauds Dr. Nadine Caron who is co-leading a team reducing access barriers to diagnosis of genetic disease in Indigenous children.
Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre Silent Genomes
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As part of #DNADay24 , we celebrate Rosalind Franklin for her work and influence in science. Thanks to Franklin, we have the historic Photo 51, which revealed that DNA indeed has a double helix shape!

🏆 The Vilcek Foundation is delighted to see our prizewinners Du Yun || 杜韻 || 杜韵 (🇨🇳 Vilcek Prize in Music, 2023) and Sun Hur (🇰🇷 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in #BiomedicalScience , 2015) among this year's elected American Academy of Arts & Sciences! #Immigrant representation matters! amacad.org/new-members-20…

This week in the RFS Briefings: A biomedical engineer pivots from human movement to women’s health + Maiken Nedergaard Wins 2024 HFSP Nakasone Award for Pioneering Science of Sleep and Neurodegenerative Disease, and more: rosalindfranklinsociety.substack.com/p/rfs-briefing…

#WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience

.Melinda French Gates has introduced a new white paper which discusses the barriers that women, especially in Africa, face in accessing capital and how philanthropic, public and private sectors can come together to close gender financing gaps. gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles…

🏅 Congrats! The Vilcek Foundation Foundation Board Member and @NYUMedicine Faculty Member Heran Darwin is the recipient of a Samsung Electronics Ho-Am Prize in Chemistry and Life Sciences. Darwin receives the honor for her work on the infection mechanisms of #Tuberculosis . koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-04-0…

Apply Now for the MMRF 2024 Research Fellows Award Program, an initiative supporting early career researchers at the post-doctorate, medical fellow, or junior faculty levels currently active or interested in research in multiple myeloma. themmrf.org/wp-content/upl…

.Bigelow Laboratory Senior Research Scientist and Vice President for Research Beth Orcutt was recently in Washington D.C. to participate in a panel exploring the environmental, technological, and policy challenges around deep-sea mining.
bigelow.org/news/articles/… Beth Orcutt

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRFoundation) announced it is awarding Distinguished Investigator Grants valued at $1 million to 10 senior-level scientists (7 are #WomeninScience !) bbrfoundation.org/content/brain-…
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Congratulations to the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows: This year, there are 188 Fellows in 52 fields gf.org/news/foundatio… GuggenheimFoundation

How to realize immense promise of gene editing: Nobel-winning CRISPR pioneer says approval of revolutionary sickle-cell therapy shows need for more efficient, less expensive process. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…