NEW YORK, February 19, 2025 – The Human Immunome Project (HIP) and Michelson Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) have awarded Dr. Omar Abudayyeh (Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School), Dr. Caleb Lareau (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), and Dr....
Keystone Symposia recently hosted an ePanel featuring the 2024 Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology recipients. The event, titled "Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology Awards: Breakthrough Discoveries in Human Immunology,"...
Keystone Symposia recently hosted an ePanel featuring the recipients of the 2024 Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology. The event, titled "Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology Awards: Breakthrough Discoveries in Human...
Video credit: Keystone Symposia This Keystone Symposia ePanel event features the 2023 recipients of the Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, an international prize that supports early-career researchers who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes...
REGISTER NOW FOR THIS FREE EVENT to see the awardees present their work and ask your questions live! On May 14, 2024, Keystone Symposia will host a live ePanel event featuring the recipients of the Michelson Prizes: Next-Generation Grants, an international prize that...
Grants to be awarded to early-career scientists for pioneering research in immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kathryn Dunn, k.dunn@michelsonphilanthropies.org, 781.738.0730 LOS ANGELES (April 1, 2024) – Today,...
Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project have awarded the 2023 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants to Dr. Claire Otero in recognition of her proposal to develop vaccines against cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus that can cause birth...
Dr. Dennis Schaefer-Babajew, a physician-scientist and clinical scholar at Rockefeller University, studies a concept called antibody feedback. When the body encounters a vaccine for the first time, its B cells produce a variety of antibodies against molecules in the...
“Immunology is one of the fastest-growing disciplines with strong medical relevance to infection, cancer, and beyond. In particular, vaccinology has gained the spotlight due to the recent safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine development,” says Dr. Siyuan Ding. “I...
Claire Otero, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Associate in Pediatrics in the Permar Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine. She was awarded a 2023 Michelson Prize: Next Generation Grant for her proposal, “Viral Fc receptors as vaccine antigens for prevention of congenital CMV.” Dr....
When Gabriele Casirati decided to specialize in hematology as a newly minted physician, the field was undergoing a revolution. In recent years, new techniques such as personalized immunotherapy, stem cell therapies, and the use of genetically modified immune cells...
If a cut becomes infected by bacteria, the human immune system can quickly kill the invading bugs by producing antibodies that attack them. Yet the human gut is full of bacteria that support our health, and somehow the immune system knows to leave them alone. That...