The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $8,584,268 over a four year period to support a multifaceted project on the origins of autism and dyslexia. The project will undertake longitudinal studies of functional brain development in children at risk of having autism or dyslexia compared to normal children, and will examine how effective...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. John Gabrieli
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007 New Initiative Scholar Award in Aging
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Dr. Nancy Kanwisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007 New Initiative Scholar Award in Other
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $8,584,268 over a four year period to support a multifaceted project on the origins of autism and dyslexia. The project will undertake longitudinal studies of functional brain development in children at risk of having autism or dyslexia compared to normal children, and will examine how effective...
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Dr. H. Robert Horvitz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 senior Scholar Award in aging
The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has proven to be an excellent organism for genetic studies of longevity, and many genes known to affect lifespan have been identified and characterized in this organism. Nonetheless, much remains to be discovered about the genetic, molecular and cellular bases of aging and longevity. Most studies of... |
Dr. Leonard Guarente
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998 senior Scholar Award in aging
Dr. Guarente is extending his studies of genetic mechanisms of aging in yeast to
mammals. He intends to determine changes in rDNA that accumulate with age in
mice. He will then generate transgenic mice with specific rDNA changes in order
to test whether specific changes cause aging.
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Dr. Dennis Kim
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008 new Scholar Award in aging
The age-associated decline in immune function with advancing age, termed immunosenescence, has been well documented in humans, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Indeed, the decline in immune function itself may contribute to the aging process. We propose to identify and characterize the genes governing the age-related decline...
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Dr. Carlos Lois
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 new Scholar Award in aging
It is generally assumed that the generation of neurons ceases before or soon after birth, and consequently, that neurons are not replaced in the brain of adult animals. According to this view, neurons are long-lived, such that their synaptic connections are able to encode information over long periods of time. Acquisition of information in... |
Dr. Yasunori Hayashi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001 new Scholar Award in aging
Recent studies have demonstrated that neural stem cells exist in the adult nervous system of both lower vertebrates and phylogenetically higher mammalian organisms, including humans. These findings raise the possibility that new neurons continue to be produced naturally in the adult brain even after the complete formation of gross neuronal... |
Dr. Elly Nedivi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998 new Scholar Award in aging
The capacity of the central nervous system (CNS) to modify connectivity properties as a result of activity is termed plasticity. Plasticity is not only a prominent feature of CNS development, but in the adult brain underlies learning and memory processes and adaptive reorganization of primary sensory maps. In the cases of both developmental and...
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Dr. Alexander Rich
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003 senior Scholar Award in gid
When a virus infects a mammal, a number of different processes occur that determine the success of the viral infection. The host (sometimes a human) immediately mounts an anti-viral response, creating a number of substances that are designed to disarm the virus and prevent it from replicating or producing materials that harm the host. However, the...
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Dr. Lee Gehrke
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001 senior Scholar Award in gid
The identification of features that are pathogen-specific and sensitive to therapeutic agents is fundamental to treating infectious human diseases. This proposal focuses on a feature common to a wide range of pathogenic RNA viruses: the absence of poly(A) tails on the viral messenger RNAs. Viruses included in this group include dengue... |
Non-Scholar Awards for Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1999 Course Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation funded a three-week summer course on the Molecular Biology of Aging at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA for the years 1999 through 2001. The course was directed by Drs. Leonard Guarente and Douglas C. Wallace. Funds cover all expenses for attending students (graduate students, post-docs, junior...
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2005 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Fourth Multidisciplinary Workshop on Self-assembly of Proteins & Peptides in Biology, Medicine, Nanomaterials, and Engineering organized by the Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University; and the...
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2004 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support an undergraduate student-organized Conference on International Health co-sponsored by the Harvard and MIT Hippocratic Societies. The conference was held February 21-22, 2004 at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For further information, see...
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2003 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Third Multidisciplinary Workshop on Self-assembly of Peptides and Proteins in Biology, Medicine,...
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2002 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $4,000 to help support an undergraduate student-organized Conference on Infectious Disease co-sponsored by the Harvard and MIT Hippocratic Societies. The conference was held March 9-10, 2002 at Harvard University and provided a forum for undergraduate students to discuss and examine the ethical, scientific,...
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2001 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Second Multidisciplinary Workshop: Self-assembling Peptide Systems in Biology, Engineering and Medicine organized by the Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, and the Center for Self-Organizing...
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1998 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The primary goal of this workshop is to advance the emerging field of self-assembling peptide systems. This is the first meeting to cover a broad spectrum of fields, including biology, chemistry, physics, protein science, polymer science, materials science, various engineering disciplines, and medical science related to aging under a common theme...
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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.
The Ellison Medical Foundation