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Krainer included in Forbes’ Most Successful Immigrants list

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:30:19 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer has been included in Forbes’ list of America’s Most Successful Immigrants. The magazine recognized Krainer for research that “led to the development of Spinraza, the first FDA-approved medicine for spinal muscular atrophy,” and for co-founding biotech company Stoke Therapeutics. After growing up in Uruguay, Krainer came to...

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Hannah Meyer selected as Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:04:24 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Hannah Meyer has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The scholarship provides her lab with $100,000 annually for five years for cutting-edge research on the immune system. Specifically, the Meyer lab focuses on an often-overlooked organ called the thymus. This small gland is known to play a...

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David Jackson elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:00:18 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor David Jackson has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Having the letters FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) tacked onto the end of one’s name is among the very highest honors a scientist can achieve. It’s a mark of elite distinction. Other Fellows of the Royal...

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Corina Amor Vegas awarded $750K MIND Prize

Gina Dipietro — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:00:20 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Corina Amor Vegas has been named a recipient of the Pershing Square Foundation’s 2026 Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Prize. This coveted prize is awarded annually to five to seven early-to-mid-career investigators who dare to challenge conventional thinking around neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, which...

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Douglas Fearon elected as Fellow of AACR Academy

Samuel Diamond — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:30:54 +0000

Former ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Douglas Fearon has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy. He is recognized for championing research that helped link innate and adaptive immunity. Fundamental biology studies by Fearon and his colleagues significantly enhanced science’s understanding of the human immune system, thereby...

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Lukey receives 2025 Stone Faculty Award

Lisa Cruz — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Michael Lukey is the recipient of the 2025 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Faculty Award, an honor presented annually to an assistant or associate professor who has made a significant research contribution. Established by CSHL Trustee James M. Stone and his wife, Cathleen, the award recognizes accomplishments...

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Borniger wins Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Award

Gina Dipietro — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:00:17 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Jeremy Borniger is among five scientists to receive this year’s Bakewell Emerging Leader Award from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research. The Award provides Borniger’s lab $750,000 over three years. Borniger’s research explores the potential of synthetic torpor—a hibernation-like metabolic state—as a novel anti-cancer strategy. By suppressing metabolism,...

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Joshua-Tor joins American Academy of Sciences and Letters

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:38:22 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Director of Research Leemor Joshua-Tor has been inducted to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. The W.M. Keck Professor of Structural Biology and HHMI investigator was honored for her fundamental biology research during a ceremony at the historic Decatur House museum, one of the oldest homes in Washington, D.C....

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Alexander wins Kidney Cancer Association Trailblazer Award

Nick Wurm — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:10:48 +0000

Over 600,000 people in the United States are living with kidney or renal pelvis cancer. This year, over 80,000 new patients will be diagnosed. Could the speckles inside a tumor cell nucleus one day help clinicians figure out the best course of treatment? ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Katherine Alexander has partnered with...

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Kate Alexander wins NIH Director’s New Innovator award

Nick Wurm — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:30:56 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Katherine Alexander has been awarded a 2025 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. The grant provides Alexander with $475,000 per year for five years. It will support her lab’s investigations into nuclear speckles and their potential role in kidney cancer and neuroblastoma. “We’re at a very exciting time in...

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Amor Vegas named 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Nick Wurm — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:30:04 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Corina Amor Vegas has been named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are appointed for up to two five-year terms and receive up to $8.6 million to support their research. “This will provide us with the resources and the...

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Borniger reaches Cancer Grand Challenges finals

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:00:41 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger has been selected for the final stages of a Cancer Grand Challenges research initiative as part of team NEUROIMPACT. The team seeks to determine how the nervous system senses and responds to cancers. In identifying the nervous system’s role in tumor growth and cancer metastasis, they...

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Adrian Krainer wins 2025 Heinrich Wieland Prize

Nick Wurm — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:30:07 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ Professor Adrian Krainer has won the 2025 Heinrich Wieland Prize. Awarded annually by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, the €250,000 prize recognizes exceptional scientists whose pioneering research pushes the boundaries of knowledge in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, and physiology. Krainer received the award for his revolutionary RNA splicing research, which led to the...

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Arkarup Banerjee named 2025 McKnight Scholar

Nick Wurm — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:00:19 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee has been named a 2025 McKnight Scholar. Awarded by the McKnight Foundation, the scholarship provides early-career neuroscientists with $225,000 over three years. The award will support Banerjee’s ongoing work to understand how brains enable vocal communication. “It’s truly an honor to be selected as a McKnight...

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Moses elected Fellow of Learned Society of Wales

Samuel Diamond — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:00:53 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor John Moses has been named a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He is one of 56 leaders and experts elected to this prestigious role from academia, health services, and the public sphere. At CSHL, Moses uses a revolutionary process called click chemistry to identify and test potential...

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Lucas Cheadle awarded $750K MIND Prize

Samuel Diamond — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:00:05 +0000

As the world’s population ages, neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease are becoming more and more common. Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of dementia. And though research into these conditions has yielded many fascinating results, few have translated to clinical applications. Today, we have a better idea of what Alzheimer’s does to the brain. However, we’re...

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Banerjee named NAS Kavli Fellow

Caroline Cosgrove — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:30:16 +0000

It’s no coincidence that the frontiers of discovery are often charted by early-career scientists. New fields are borne from new perspectives. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) has a long tradition of supporting early-career scientists’ cutting-edge research. Now, one of our brightest, CSHL Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee—a graduate of the CSHL School of Biological Sciences—joins yet...

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Janowitz elected to ASCI

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:30:34 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Tobias Janowitz has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Janowitz is recognized for his outstanding scholarly research, which approaches cancer from a whole-body perspective. He has led clinical trials and published authoritative studies on cancer cachexia, a debilitating condition that affects patients in the late...

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Navlakha named Simons Foundation Pivot fellow

Nick Wurm — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:30:26 +0000

Scientific progress isn’t always a straight line. Discovery demands flexibility—a willingness to go off the beaten path. Oftentimes, that means leaving one’s comfort zone. And that’s exactly what ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Saket Navlakha has in mind. Navlakha has received a 2024 Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. Launched in 2022, the fellowship supports...

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Adrian Krainer wins Albany Prize for biomedical research

Luis Sandoval — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:00:21 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer has won the Albany Prize, one of America’s largest awards for biomedical research. He now joins a prestigious list of recipients that includes names like Anthony Fauci, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Jennifer Doudna. The Albany Prize recognizes scientists whose work has translated from “the bench to the bedside.”...

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