Funding Opportunities
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) has released two new RFAs for 2012 :
1. Innovator Awards for Early Career Investigators in Translational Stem Cell Research.
The goal of these awards is to support innovative projects with the potential to transform the field of stem cell research and advance the use of stem cells for the treatment of human disease.
2. Innovator Awards for Early Career Investigators in Neuroscience
The goal of these awards is to support the best young researchers working in fundamental areas of developmental, cellular, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, broadly interpreted. Proposals need not be related to stem cells.
For details, click here
Both awards provide $1.5 M (payable over 5 years) to outstanding young researchers in the US, UK and Canada (subject to eligibility)
The RFAs will close
on March 30, 2012
For additional information, please contact:
Caroline Marchall,
Vice President, Scientific Programs
The New York Stem Cell Foundation
Or visit:
www.nyscf.org/stemcell and www.nyscf.org/neuro
Helmsley Stem Cell Starter Grants
Recipients of the Second Helmsley Stem Cell Starter Grant (summer 2011):
- Fiona Doetsch, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience (Neurology)
“Chemical screens for activators of quiescent adult neural stem cells”
- Oliver Hobert, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
“Targeting chromatin regulation to enhance neuronal subtype specification from stem cells”
- Tom Maniatis, PhD
Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry
Chair, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
“A new method for generating induced Pluripotent Stem cells (iPS cells) that allows the removal of reprogramming genes, and site specific insertion of reporter genes.”
- Sid Mukherjee, MD, D.Phil
Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine-Oncology
“A niche-based Chemical Screen to identify modulators of hematopoietic stem cells”
Congratulations to all of them.
