Awards + Announcements

Mary Gehring and Iain Cheeseman are recipients of named chairs 

The internationally renowned developmental biologist will be the inaugural incumbent of the Susan Lindquist Chair for Women in Science at Whitehead Institute.

The award aims to encourage diversity in college and university faculties by supporting graduate students.

Plus three new directors are announced: Susan Hockfield, Dennis Langer, and Churchill Franklin

Weiskopf will be studying how existing FDA-approved drugs could be repurposed to reduce the severity and mortality of the disease.

This  highest award of the International Society for Experimental Hematology honors a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to basic science in the fields of hematology, immunology, stem cell research, and cell and gene therapy. 

Globally respected cell biologist Jonathan Weissman has become the Institute’s newest Member and will be the inaugural Landon T. Clay Professor of Biology at Whitehead Institute.

Research on sex differences goes head to head with other discoveries in March Madness-style bracket.

The award recognizes Sabatini’s pathbreaking work on mTOR and cancer metabolism

In honoring him with the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, GSA is recognizing Fink’s discovery of principles central to genome organization and regulation in eukaryotic cells.