Investing in the careers of interdisciplinary researchers
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI). This award is a postdoc-faculty bridging award for researchers conducting biological research through interdisciplinary approaches.
The CASI award provides freedom and funding security that enables interdisciplinary new investigators to develop innovative and independent research programs during this critical time in their careers. The intent is that this infusion of funds and early career support will allow these investigators to quickly establish an innovative research program that will allow them to become leaders in their respective fields.
This year’s competition more than 250 preproposals were submitted. From this group 91 were invited to submit full proposals, and from that group, 21 applicants were invited to interview virtually. This cohort has doctoral disciplines that range from Physics, Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering, and their submitted projects reflected this diversity of scientific approaches.
“We are amazed by the talent of postdoctoral fellows working at the scientific interface,” said Program Officer Dr. Kelly Rose, who oversees the CASI grant program. “We look forward to supporting these scientists in the beginning of what we know will be fantastic careers filled with important discoveries across disciplines.”
The recipients of the 2021 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface are:
Kevin Dalton, PhD
Harvard University
Machine Learning Models for Next Generation X-Ray Diffraction Experiments
Rebecca Donegan, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology
Heme as a nutrient source at the host-pathogen interface
Anne Draelos, PhD
Duke University
Adaptive Algorithms for Online Neural Modeling
Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez, PhD
University of California-San Francisco
A multiscale quantitative approach for engineering cellular therapies and disease modeling
Antentor Hinton, PhD
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Reimaging, Restoring, and Repurposing Mitochondria and MERC networks
Christina Hueschen, PhD
Stanford University
Physical Biology of Parasites
Vira Kravets, PhD
University of Colorado-Denver
Beta cell networks and neural interactions in healthy and diabetic conditions
Ruth Marisol Herrera Perez, PhD
Columbia University
Engineering models to control cell communication in self-organizing systems
Rebecca Sherbo, PhD
Harvard University
Sustainable food out of thin air
Charlotte Strandkvist, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Studying cell fate decisions and dynamics with time-resolved single cell genomics
Longzhi Tan, PhD
Stanford University
Probing the 3D Chromatin and Spatial Transcriptomic Basis of Neurodevelopment, Social Behaviors, and Autism with Single-cell Precision
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