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Senior and New Scholars Awards for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center


Dr. Mark Ptashne

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Chromatin Architecture and Gene Regulation in Aging Cells

2012 senior Scholar Award in aging

The literature on aging includes very many papers correlating changes in chromatin structure with aging, including in yeast and mammalian cells. A limitation of these studies is that, until recently, we have had no clear picture of how chromatin architecture is related to gene regulation in specific cases, and in particular how it might affect... more >>

Dr. Michael S. Glickman

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Coordinate regulation of M. tuberculosis cell envelope composition during symbiosis

2002 new Scholar Award in gid

Tuberculosis remains a major cause of mortality worldwide and new antimicrobials that would shorten TB chemotherapy are badly needed. Our laboratory studies the pathogenesis of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) through a multidisciplinary approach that includes bacterial genetics, lipid biochemistry, and immunology. The... 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.