Chris Mason: The Brilliant Ten Of 2014
Dr. Christopher Mason is profiled in Popular Science as one of The Brilliant Ten of 2014, for his ongoing work in sequencing “the genes of everything from subway microbes to NASA astronauts to learn how the environment affects genetic code”.
Read moreChris Mason Named 2014 Vallee Young Investigator
Dr. Christopher Mason is named 2014 Vallee Young investigator by the Vallee Foundation for his work in elucidating the dynamic functional heterogeneity of Acute Myeloid Leukemia hematopoietic stem cells during chemotherapy.
Read moreMike LeVine Awarded “Best Poster”
Mike LeVine, a PBSB graduate student in Harel Weinstein‘s lab, receives a Best Poster Award at the 3DSIG2014 Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics meeting for his poster entitled “NBIT: An N-body information theory framework for understanding collective motions in proteins”.
Read moreSheila Nirenberg Awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Dr. Sheila Nirenberg is awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on how the brain encodes visual information.
Read moreChris Mason Receives Excellence In Partnering Award
Christopher E. Mason, Assistant Professor in Physiology and Biophysics, receives an Excellence in Partnering award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry for “exemplary contributions to a framework for quality laboratory integration of genome sequencing technologies into healthcare delivery”.
Read moreChris Mason And Gene Patents
Christopher E. Mason, Assistant Professor in PBSB Program, is featured in Reuters, Nature, Newsday, CBC news, Huffington Post, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and other media outlets for his recent paper on gene patents published in Genome Medicine and also for his work as a scientific expert on gene patents for the AMP v. Myriad Genetics case before...
Read moreSheng Li Wins Travel Fellowship And Speaking Invitation
Sheng Li, a PBSB graduate student in Dr. Christopher E. Mason‘s lab, wins a National Science Foundation Travel Fellowship and is invited to give a speech at the 17th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2013) held at the Tsinghua University for her paper on “An optimized algorithm for detecting and annotating regional differential methylation”.
Read morePipes And LeVine Secure Graduate Funding
Two Graduate Students working with PBSB faculty are awarded competitive graduate research fellowships: (1) Lenore Pipes, a graduate student in the Tri-Institutional Graduate Program in Computational Biology and Medicine, working in the laboratories of Dr. Christopher E. Mason and Dr. Adam Siepel, wins a 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship for her work on...
Read moreOlivier Elemento Recognised
Dr. Olivier Elemento is awarded a five-year Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award.
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