Twenty-six outstanding postdoctoral fellows selected as
awardees to esteemed fellowship program in biomedical
research.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jane Coffin
Childs Fund for Medical Research (JCC) is a leader in
biomedical research funding, having committed more than
$150M together with its partners. For
nearly eighty years, JCC has supported groundbreaking science by
the most promising postdoctoral fellows in cancer and human disease
research.
The esteemed Board of Science Advisors selected twenty-six new
fellows from one of the largest applicant pools in the fund's
history based on their doctoral research accomplishments,
innovative research plans, and their chosen scientific mentors.
Awardees are conducting research in a broad range of biomedical
disciplines, from unveiling novel therapeutic targets in cancer to
understanding the complex neurological mechanisms required for an
animal to weigh behavioral instinct against learned experience.
"The Jane Coffin Childs Fund has a long history of funding
innovative science that spans all areas of biology. We are proud to
be able to support this new cohort of outstanding postdoctoral
fellows who have made important contributions during graduate
school and developed exciting new directions to pursue as
postdoctoral fellows," said Sue Biggins, Ph.D., chair of the
JCC's Scientific Advisory Board "Our experience has demonstrated
that support from JCC will catalyze the careers of our fellows and
lead to major scientific breakthroughs."
Biggins is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI) and Director of the Basic Sciences Division of the
Fred Hutch in Seattle, as well as
a former JCC Fellow.
In total, over $7M is committed to
the 2024 cohort of fellows to provide three years of stipends by
the Jane Coffin Childs Fund and its partners, HHMI and Merck
Research Laboratories. The next round of applications for the
2025 cohort will open in October
2024.
"The distinguished JCC network of over 1700 former awardees and
grantees around the world, the Board of Scientific Advisors and all
of us at JCC are proud to welcome these exceptional scientists to
our community," said Anita Pepper, Ph.D., the JCC's executive
director "We look forward to supporting all facets of their
careers."
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial
Fund for Medical Research was established by the Childs Family in
1937 to honor the memory of Jane Coffin
Childs. Inspired by the founding purpose to support research
into the causes and treatment of cancer, the Fund's mission has
broadened to support fundamental scientific research that advances
our understanding of the causes, treatments, and cures for human
disease. More information about the fund and the fellows it
supports can be found on the website
https://www.jccfund.org/.
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