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Senior and New Scholars Awards for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory


Dr. Grigori Enikolopov

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Division-coupled Differentiation of Stem Cells Driving Age-related Decline in Neurogenesis

2009 senior Scholar Award in aging
New neurons are continuously produced in the adult brain and they may be important for behavior, regeneration, and response to drugs. Production of new neurons continuously declines with age and it is possible that this decline contributes to age-related cognitive impairment. We have recently developed a novel approach to identify and quantify the... more >>

Dr. Shiv I. S. Grewal

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Heterochromatin Assembly and Replicative Life-Span in Fission Yeast

1999 new Scholar Award in aging
Heterochromatin is a description of transcriptionally 'silent,' condensed chromosomal regions which largely consist of repetitive sequences, located primarily at centromeres and telomeres. Recent studies have suggested that heterochromatin plays many important functions, including proper segregation of chromosomes during cell division and... more >>

Non-Scholar Awards for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory


Banbury Center Workshop on "Easeful Death"

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

2010 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Other
The Ellison Medical Foundation has awarded $45,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to support the Banbury Center Workshop on "Easeful Death: 21st Century Perspectives on Assisted Suicide". more >>

Seeking the Secret of Life: DNA

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

2003 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Other
The Ellison Medical Foundation has awarded $25,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to help support the exhibit entitled ìSeeking the Secret of Life: DNAî marking the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA and the role of New York scientists and institutions in the discovery. The exhibit, sponsored by the New York Public Library... more >>

Funded Institutions

The Ellison Medical Foundation fosters research by means of grants-in-aid on behalf of investigators to universities and laboratories within the United States. Institutions receiving awards must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or U.S. colleges or universities.