Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
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The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (the "JCC"), established in 1937, awards the "Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship" for research in the medical and related sciences bearing on cancer
. Currently the Foundation awards 20 to 30 fellowships per year.
Members of the board of scientific advisors have included:
Notable fellows have included:
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
. Currently the Foundation awards 20 to 30 fellowships per year.
Members of the board of scientific advisors have included:
- Elizabeth BlackburnElizabeth BlackburnElizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS is an Australian-born American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the...
- Peter Cresswell
- Elaine FuchsElaine FuchsElaine V. Fuchs is an American cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs also pioneered reverse genetics approaches, which assess protein function first and then assesses its...
- Tony Hunter
- Cynthia KenyonCynthia KenyonCynthia Jane Kenyon is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a tiny worm, Caenorhabditis elegans.-Career:...
- John KuriyanJohn KuriyanJohn Kuriyan is currently Chancellor's Professor at the University of California Berkeley in the departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry. He is also a Faculty Scientist in Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and a member of...
- Susan McConnell
- Thomas D. PollardThomas D. PollardThomas Dean Pollard is a prominent educator, cell biologist and biophysicist whose research focuses on understanding cell motility through the study of actin filaments and myosin motors...
- Randy SchekmanRandy SchekmanRandy W. Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011 he was announced as the editor of a new high profile open access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the...
- Charles J. Sherr
- Pamela A. Silver
- Graham C. WalkerGraham C. WalkerGraham C. Walker is an American biologist, notable for his work explicating the structure and function of proteins involved in DNA repair and mutagenesis, with applications for cancer, and for understanding rhizobium functions that infect plants and mammals.In addition to his scientific...
Notable fellows have included:
- Jeremy M. BergJeremy M. BergJeremy Mark Berg is the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institute of Health . He was formerly a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry and author of several...
- David S. CafisoDavid S. CafisoDavid S. Cafiso is an American biochemist and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on membrane proteins and cell signaling, and is primarily supported by grants from the National Institute of Health.-Research:Work in Dr...
- Margaret T. FullerMargaret T. FullerMargaret "Minx" T. Fuller is a developmental biologist known for her research on the male germ line and defining the role of the stem cell environment in specifying cell fate and differentiation., CDB Symposium 2007.Fuller is the Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University, and...
- Juan E. GonzálezJuan E. GonzálezDr. Juan E. González is a Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. González received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. He then was a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts...
- Susan Gottesman
- Enoch Huang
- Lara MahalLara MahalDr. Lara K. Mahal is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the New York University. She is notable both for her pioneering work establishing lectin microarrays as a new technology for glycomics and for her graduate work with Professor Carolyn R.Bertozzi on unnatural...
- William McGinnisWilliam McGinnisWilliam "Bill" McGinnis, Ph.D. is a molecular biologist and professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego . At UCSD he has also served as the Chairman of the Department of Biology from July 1998 - June 1999, as Associate Dean of the Division of Natural Sciences from July 1, 1999...
- James A. ShapiroJames A. ShapiroJames A. Shapiro is an American biologist, an expert in bacterial genetics and a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago.-Academic biography:...
- Joan A. SteitzJoan A. SteitzJoan Argetsinger Steitz is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights such as that ribosomes interact with mRNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by snRNPs, small nuclear ribonucleoproteins which...
- Clare M. Waterman-Storer
- Liqun Luo
See also
- Helen Hay Whitney FoundationHelen Hay Whitney FoundationThe Helen Hay Whitney Foundation is a New York City based charitable foundation which supports early postdoctoral research training in all basic biomedical sciences....
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research FoundationDamon Runyon Cancer Research FoundationThe Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is a not-for-profit cancer research organization focused "discovering the talent to discover the cure." The Foundation states that its goals are to: "identify the best and brightest early career scientists in cancer research, accelerate the translation...
- Life Sciences Research Foundation