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Applications Open for 2024 Michelson Prizes: $150,000 Grants Available to Immunology Innovators
The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project have opened the 2024 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants application period.
Dr. Claire Otero Awarded Michelson Prize for Proposal to Develop Cytomegalovirus Vaccines
Dr. Otero says the Michelson grant will allow her to develop the rabbit model to test her vFcR vaccine candidates, which she hopes will eventually lead to clinical trials.
Dr. Gary K. Michelson and Alya Michelson Receive 2024 Humanitarian Award at the World Brain Mapping Foundation’s 21st Annual Gathering for Cure Awards
Dr. Gary K. Michelson and Alya Michelson received the 2024 Humanitarian Award at the World Brain Mapping Foundation’s 21st Gathering for Cure (GFC) Awards Gala at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
Dr. Dennis Schaefer-Babajew Seeks to Understand How Antibodies Respond to Vaccine Boosters with 2023 Michelson Prize
Dr. Dennis Schaefer-Babajew, a physician-scientist and clinical scholar at Rockefeller University, studies a concept called antibody feedback. When the body encounters a vaccine for the first time, its B cells produce a variety of antibodies against molecules in the vaccine known as antigens.
Harnessing Dangerous Pathogens: Dr. Siyuan Ding Awarded ‘Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grant’ to Create Dual Vaccines Against Diarrheal Diseases
For his proposal to design vaccines for diarrheal diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of children per year worldwide, Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project have selected Ding as a recipient of the 2023 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants.
Michelson Medical Research Foundation and Human Immunome Project Announce 2023 Michelson Prize Laureates
The Human Immunome Project (HIP) and Michelson Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) have awarded Dr. Siyuan Ding (Washington University in St. Louis), Dr. Claire Otero (Weill Cornell Medicine), and Dr. Dennis Schaefer-Babajew (Rockefeller University) the Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, the organizations announced today.
Michelson Prize Finalist Dr. Gabriele Casirati Makes Cancer Immunotherapies Safer through Genetic Engineering
Now a postdoctoral fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Casirati began working on ways to use gene editing to improve bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients – research that led to his being named a finalist for the 2024 Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize for Immunology.
Michelson Prize Finalist Dr. Carla Nowosad’s Research Explores How Bacteria and Antibodies Coexist in the Gut
Dr. Nowosad set out to discover how immune cells in the intestine maintain a balance between the body and its bacteria – research that led to her being named a finalist for the 2024 Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize for Immunology.
Coordinating the War on Pathogens: Dr. Bingxu Liu’s Research on Immune Proteins Wins 2024 Michelson Prize
His discovery of how certain proteins help the immune system fight pathogens led to his award for the 2024 Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize for Immunology. Along with the $30,000 prize, Liu’s essay describing his research appears in the print and online editions of Science.
2024 Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology Awarded for Groundbreaking Research on STING’s Role in Immune Response
Dr. Bingxu Liu has been awarded the 2024 Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology for his work in furthering the understanding of how the human immune system senses dangerous invading pathogens.
Michelson Medical Research Foundation: 2024 February Newsletter
Dr. Gary K. Michelson and California Governor Gavin Newsom, pictured with State Senator Ben Allen and Michelson Philanthropies Co-chair Alya Michelson, announce the establishment of the revolutionary new California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy (CIII).
Nominations Open for the 2024 Victor Cohn Prize in Medical Science Reporting
Underwritten by Michelson Philanthropies, the $5,000 prize honors a writer for a body of work which, for reasons of accuracy, enterprise, insight, and narrative power, has made a profound contribution to public understanding of critical advances in medical science and their impact on human health.
Governor Newsom Unveils California Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy: A Revolutionary Leap in Science and Medicine
The Institute will unite California's medical research assets to foster inter-institutional dream teams, promote health, and cultivate a thriving biotech ecosystem.
T Cell Research Breakthrough by Michelson Prize Recipient Dr. Mamedov Published in Nature
Mamedov and the team used CRISPR technology—a Nobel Prize winning gene-editing tool—to disrupt thousands of genes in lymphoma cells.
How Unique Immune Cells Can Recognize and Destroy Tumors
San Francisco— Gamma delta T cells, a special type of cell in the immune system, are incredibly effective at recognizing and killing cancer cells. Cancer patients with higher levels of these T cells in their tumors tend to fare better than those with lower levels.
Maryn McKenna's Award-Winning Reporting on Infectious Diseases and Global Health
McKenna is being honored for her reporting and writing on infectious diseases and global health and was selected from an extraordinarily competitive field of nominees.
Maryn McKenna Awarded 2023 Victor Cohn Prize
Los Angeles— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck), senior writer at WIRED and a widely published journalist and author specializing in public health, global health, and food policy, has been selected to receive the 2023 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting.
Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize: Breakthrough Discoveries in Human Immunology Keystone ePanel
This ePanel event will honor the exceptional achievements of the 2023 awardees of the Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology.
Roser Vento-Tormo’s Michelson Prize Finalist Research: Decoding the Human Immune System
To conduct their research, Vento-Tormo and her lab use genomics and imaging tools to construct physiological environments that mimic organs such as the placenta or the testis.
