Awards
Pew Charitable Trusts
CSHL Assistant Professor Z. Josh Huang is one of 18 scientists in the nation named a Scholar in 2002 by the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. The program, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, supports young investigators of outstanding promise in basic or clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health. The four year, $240,000 Pew Scholars awards are intended to provide stable support to junior scientists until they establish their careers. The Pew Charitable Trusts were established between 1948 and 1979 by the children of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Andersen Pew to honor their parents with a foundation that would contribute to public health and welfare.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Karen Zito, a postdoctoral fellow in Karel Svoboda's lab, is one of 17 researchers named in a 2002 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Center Awardee in the Biomedical Sciences. Each award provides a five year, $500,000 grant to support advanced postdoctoral training as well as the first years of faculty research. The awards are intended to foster the development and productivity of early-career biomedical researchers and to help them make the transition to becoming independant investigators.
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
Peter Gillespie, a postdoctoral fellow in Tatsuya Hirano's lab, has received a three year, $125,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research> The fund was established in 1937 by the late Miss Alice S. Coffin and Mr. Starling W. Childs as a gift in trust to Yale University to support wide ranging scientific inquiry into the causes and treatment of cancer.
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