Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants | 2024 Winner

His proposal, “Development of Programmable RNA Sensors for Next-Generation Cancer Immunotherapies,” will leverage mRNA therapies and cell state targeting technologies (RADARS) to achieve mRNA tumor-specific therapies

Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School; Investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Mass General Brigham’s Gene and Cell Therapy Institute

Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants | 2024 Winner

As a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Liu is developing new molecules known as adjuvants that improve cancer vaccines’ ability to stimulate the immune system.

Rockefeller University - Clinical Scholar, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants | 2023 Winner

As a Clinical Scholar, Dr. Schaefer-Babajew will study the effects of passively administered neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies on subsequent adaptive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in healthy adult volunteers.

Rockefeller University - Clinical Scholar, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants | 2023 Winner

Dr. Ding’s proposed research seeks to develop a combined vaccine for the leading viral and bacterial agents that cause infant diarrhea.

Washington University - Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology

Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants | 2023 Winner

Dr. Otero’s research involves creating an effective vaccine for cytomegalovirus or CMV. CMV is related to viruses that cause chickenpox, herpes simplex, and mononucleosis.

Weill Cornell Medical College, Postdoctoral Associate in Pediatrics

Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants | 2022 Winner

Dr. Noam Auslander is developing an artificial intelligence-based approach to efficiently detects microbial expression in cancer and immune diseases.

Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Oncogenesis Program | The Wistar Institute