Dr. Yifan Cheng have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), congratulations!
The I2CELL Seed Award is attributed to Professor Wallace Marshall from UCSF to model single cell organisms as finite state automata. Wallace Marshall, director of the Center for Cellular Construction at the University of California, San Francisco, receives the I2Cell Seed Award.
QBI held a competition to give away 1.1 million dollars for bold ideas and basic research in cancer and psychiatry. Four grants and four fellowships were awarded to the best collaborative ideas that merged both basic and clinical research. Jeremy Reiter and David Raleigh proposed a bold idea in cancer: How fats cause cancer: Lipids in the primary cilium activate oncogenic Hedgehog signaling.