Institution

Researcher

Title of Research

Award

Boston University Medical Center

Dr. Christopher Gabel

The study of neural regeneration in C. Elegans using femtosecond laser surgery and advanced optical neurophysiology

$100,000 for two years

Brandeis University

Dr. Satoshi Yashida

How cells respond to stress?

$100,000 for two years

Immune Disease Institute, Children’s Hospital

Dr. Sun Hur

Structural and kinetic investigations of the mechanism for self vs non-self RNA discrimination by RIG-I

$100,000 for two years.

Harvard College

Dr. Tobias Ritter

New pharmaceuticals and diagnostics by late-stage fluorination

Harvard University

Dr. Briana Burton

Mechanisms of nucleic acid transport across membranes

$100,000 for two years

Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Matthias Marti

Establishment of a high throughput screen focused on preventing the development of gametocytes, the form of malaria that mediates transmission

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Dr. Konstantina Stankovic

Functional role and therapeutic implications of osteprotegerin secretion by the auditory nerve

$100,000 for two years

Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Raul Mostolovsky

The chromatin factor SIRT6 is a master regulator of glucose homeostasis

$100,000 for two years

Northeastern University

Dr. Mark Niedre

Optical tomographic sensing and enumeration of rare circulating cells in vivo

$180,000 over a two-year period

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Dr. Jeffrey Bailey

Dissecting the role of human copy number variation in severe malaria

$100,000 for two years

New Investigator Awards – 2008

Institution

Researcher

Title of Research

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Wenyi Wei

Dissection of the signaling pathways controlling the destruction of the Mdm2 oncoprotein

Boston University

Hatice Altug

Development of multiplexed, ultra-sensitive, label-free and rapid biosensing technologies for proteomics and virus detection applications

Broad Institute

Alexander Meissner

Characterizing the pluripotent state through integrative genomic analysis

Harvard Medical School

Thomas Bernhardt

New strategies for identifying antibiotic targets

Massachusetts General Hospital

Jorge Mora

Teaching lymphocytes where to go: Implications for intestinal immunity and inflammation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Laurie Boyer

Investigating how chromatin organization in embryonic stem cells influences cell fate specification

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jeroen Saeij

Molecular characterization of toxoplasma kinases involved virulence

Tufts Veterinary School

Christopher Schonhoff

Role of S-nitrosylation in hepatic bile acid transport

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jesse Mager

Functional assessment of epigenetic regulatory genes in vivo

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Xingwei Wang

Miniature label-free biosensing probes for rapid detection of virus, bacteria, and cells

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Iain Cheeseman

A molecular toolkit for analysis of the human kinetochore