Jasin's fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations. She will be presented with the award on September 16.
An extraordinary scientist, Baltimore’s discovery of reverse transcriptase—the copying of RNA into DNA that could be inserted into the genome—had profound implications in biology.
From mosquito courtship to primate memory, a recent symposium hosted by the Rockefeller’s Price Family Center and the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University highlighted ongoing research into how social behaviors emerge.
Scientists Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim, philanthropist Marlene Hess, and Nobel-prize winner Michael W. Young were also given honorary degrees.
Mojsov is recognized for her discovery of the peptide hormone GLP-1, research that led to a new class of safe and highly effective drugs for type 2 diabetes as well as the treatment of obesity.
Kivanç Birsoy and Ekaterina Vinogradova will head projects that aim to harness and bioengineer immune cells for the early detection, prevention, and treatment of disease.
Mei, a graduate student in Sohail Tavazoie’s lab, is being honored for work showing that a commonly inherited mutation governs breast cancer metastasis and influences survival.
She shares the award with three other scientists who together laid the groundwork for a new generation of drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity.
The awards are worth up to $1.5 million each over the course of up to eight years, covering both postdoctoral training and the transition to the start of an independent laboratory as a faculty member.
