Two new Pew scholars for MIT, Children's
Two scientists from MIT and Children's Hospital Boston are among 20 scholars who today won Pew grants to help them pursue promising research early in their careers.
Laurie A. Boyer (left), assistant professor of biology at MIT, is figuring out how embryonic stem cells orchestrate the genetic programs that transform cells into different kinds of tissues throughout the body, with an eye toward both stem cell therapies and the disruption in development that gives rise to disease.
Richard I. Gregory (left), an assistant professor in biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Children’s and Harvard Medical School, is on the trail of microRNAs, tracking how they might be involved in development, both when it proceeds normally and when it goes awry and becomes cancer. He is also studying similar steps in stem cells.
Their $240,000 awards are given over four years. The program is funded by Pew Charitable Trusts through a grant to the University of California at San Francisco.
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