The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,000 to help support the 2003 Summer Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology on Signal Transduction Determining the Fate of Stem Cells to be held August 9-12, 2003 in Bozeman, Montana. Registration deadline - June 27, 2003. For registration, see http://www.ascb.org/meetings/summer03/main03.html

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,000 to help support the 2003 Summer Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology on Signal Transduction Determining the Fate of Stem Cells to be held August 9-12, 2003 in Bozeman, Montana. Registration deadline - June 27, 2003. For registration, see http://www.ascb.org/meetings/summer03/main03.html

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, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University, and The Rockefeller University, was installed from February through September 2003 in the Science, Industry and Business Library of the New York Public Library. Historical photographs, documents, and objects will trace the history of the discovery and its impact on changing the direction of science and medicine.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $25,000 to help support a symposium on Genes, Genomes: Impact on Medicine and Society to commemorate the opening celebration of Columbia Universityís 250th anniversary. The symposium will be held at Columbia University, New York City on October 16-17, 2003. Further information to appear at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/250/