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FOCUS In Sound #17: Interview with Claudia Walker

Aug 06, 2016
In 2009, Claudia received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers, a $175,000 grant over the course of five years ...

by Russ Campbell

FOCUS In Sound #16: Interview with Pardis Sabeti

Aug 06, 2016
In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet Dr. Pardis Sabeti, a geneticist who won a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences i...

by Russ Campbell

Scientists use CRISPR to discover Zika and dengue weaknesses

Jun 22, 2016
WORCESTER, MA - Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have performed the first CRISPR/Cas9 screen to discover human prot...

by Russ Campbell

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Invests $5M in Grants to Researchers Studying the Mechanisms of Infectious Diseases

Jun 14, 2016
Research grant to ten U.S. professors will boost fundamental understanding of how infectious disease works RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — As part of...

by Russ Campbell

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Recognizes Ten Scientists Combining Biology with the Physical Sciences and Engineering Towards Medical Breakthroughs

Jun 06, 2016
Interdisciplinary postdocs ‘bridging science fiction with reality’ will share $5M in career grants. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Holographic m...

by Russ Campbell

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Invests $8.4 Million in the Careers of Physician-Scientists

Jun 03, 2016
Career grant allows medical doctors to study Ebola, mental illness, brain cancer in children, and other biomedical questions RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N...

by Russ Campbell

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