Ten Researchers Selected to Receive $6M in Total Science Funding for Cutting-edge
Research
IRVINE,
Calif., June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced today the
selection of its 2024 class of Beckman Young Investigator Awardees
from U.S. colleges and universities. The awardees exemplify the
Foundation's mission of supporting the most promising young faculty
members in the early stages of their academic careers in the
chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of
methods, instruments, and materials that will open new avenues of
research in science. They were selected from a pool of
approximately 300 applicants after a three-part review led by a
panel of scientific experts.
"We are excited to welcome each of these
outstanding scientists into the Beckman 'family,' to help launch
these extremely creative projects, and to see them reach their full
potential." - Dr. Anne Hultgren,
Beckman Foundation Executive Director
This year's award offers $600,000
in funding over four years to each of the following
researchers:
Kevin Clark, PhD, Tufts University
Caitlin Davis, PhD, Yale University
Matthew Griffin, PhD, University of California, Irvine
Barbara Jusiak, PhD, University of California, Irvine
Ayokunle Olanrewaju, PhD,
University of Washington
Sam Peng, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cristina Rodriguez, PhD,
Yale University
Michelle Teplensky, PhD, Boston
University
Sophia Theodossiou, PhD,
Boise State University
Lea Winter, PhD, Yale University
"Our newest young researchers are engaged in high risk-high
reward work that over the next four years will address a broad
range of problems, from creating vaccines that match immunity at
the pace of viral mutation to synthesizing ammonia at room
temperature and pressure for global fertilizer production to
designing tools that detect cell-specific patterns of RNA
modification, and more. We are excited to welcome each of these
outstanding scientists into the Beckman 'family,' to help launch
these extremely creative projects, and to see them reach their full
potential," shared Dr. Anne
Hultgren, Executive Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman
Foundation.
About the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Located in Irvine, California, the
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation supports researchers and
nonprofit research institutions in making the next generation of
breakthroughs in chemistry and the life sciences. Founded in 1977
by 20th century scientific instrumentation pioneer Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, the Foundation supports
United States institutions and
young scientists whose creative, high-risk, and interdisciplinary
research will lead to innovations and new tools and methods for
scientific discovery. For more information, visit
beckman-foundation.org.
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