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To Vaccinate Our Economy, Boost Support for the NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s single largest funder of medical research, the very fuel that feeds the American engine of medical discovery and the linchpin to our country’s post-COVID economic recovery.
The Best Ways to Support Early-Career Scientists
Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp talks with Gary Michelson, founder of the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and co-chair of Michelson Philanthropies, about the best ways to support early-career scientists, including through prizes such as the new Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize for Immunology.
Michelson Prizes Invites Applications for $150,000 Research Grants in Human Immunology
Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project are now welcoming applications for the 2021 Michelson Prize: Next Generation Grants. The prestigious $150,000 grants are given annually to support researchers 35 and younger who are advancing human immunology, vaccine, and immunotherapy discovery research on major global diseases.
2020 Michelson Prizes Awarded to Young Scientists in Pursuit of Vaccine Breakthroughs
Danika Hill, a research fellow in immunology and pathology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and Michael Birnbaum, an assistant professor at MIT, are the two 2020 Michelson Prizes recipients.
