Applications for the 2025 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award in Pain are open through December 11, 2024. The award provides two or more grants of $150,000 over three years to early-career investigators pursuing innovative research that focuses on basic science mechanisms of pain. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eQEV8qfs US Association for the Study of Pain #RitaAllenScholar #discoveryscience #painscience
Rita Allen Foundation
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The Rita Allen Foundation invests in transformative ideas in their earliest stages to leverage their growth and promote breakthrough solutions to significant problems. It enables early-career biomedical scholars to do pioneering research, seeds innovative approaches to fostering informed civic engagement, and develops knowledge and networks to build the effectiveness of the philanthropic sector. Throughout its work, the Foundation embraces collaboration, creativity, learning, and leadership.
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2018 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Joseph Parker has been selected as a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Read more about Joseph’s award and his contributions to advancing the fields of evolutionary biology and etymology here: https://lnkd.in/exx2hFx3
🎉 Meet the 2024 MacArthur Fellows! These 22 exceptionally creative individuals redefine their fields with imagination and intention. They shift how we connect to one another, through our shared history and our stories. #MacFellow The 2024 MacArthur Fellows are: 🌾 Loka Ashwood, sociologist 💻 Ruha Benjamin, transdisciplinary scholar and writer 🎤 Justin Vivian Bond, artist and performer 📝 Jericho Brown, poet 🎧 Tony Cokes, media artist 📱 Nicola Dell, computer and information scientist 🎻 Johnny Gandelsman, violinist and producer 🎥 Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker 📖 Juan Felipe Herrera, poet, educator, and writer 📚 Ling Ma, fiction writer 📜 Jennifer L. Morgan, historian 🦎 Martha Muñoz, evolutionary biologist 📓 Shailaja Paik, historian 🪲 Joseph Parker, evolutionary biologist 🎨 Ebony G. Patterson, multimedia artist 🩰 Shamel Pitts, dancer and choreographer 📷 Wendy Red Star, visual artist 🎒 Jason Reynolds, children’s and young adult writer ⚖️ Dorothy Roberts, legal scholar and public policy researcher 🪐 Keivan Stassun, science educator and astronomer 🐋 Benjamin Van Mooy, oceanographer ♿ Alice Wong, writer, editor, and disability justice activist Learn more about the Fellows and their work on our website: https://lnkd.in/gGEsYSJY
Meet the 2024 MacArthur Fellows!
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2017 Rita Allen Scholar Vincent Luca and colleagues at the Moffitt Cancer Center publish new insights on the mechanism by which LAG3, a protein found on the surface of certain immune cells, suppresses T cell activation in mice with cancer. The research expands understanding of therapeutic approaches for treating cancer in humans which aim to block proteins, such as LAG3, that inhibit the body’s immune response against disease. #discoveryscience #RitaAllenScholar
I am excited to share our Nature Communications paper describing the structure of #LAG3 bound to MHC-II. This project was carried out by Qianqian M. and colleagues at Moffitt Cancer Center and provides new insights into the mechanism by which LAG3 suppresses T cell activation. Despite some conflicting literature, we found that LAG3 occupies that CD4 binding site on MHC-II to inhibit coreceptor interactions. This is by no means the only function of LAG3, but it clearly shows LAG3 binding is incompatible with CD4 binding to MHC-II. Another notable finding was that relatlimab, the FDA-approved anti-LAG3 antibody, does not engage the MHCII-binding region of LAG3, indicating that different classes of LAG3 antibodies can inhibit by functionally distinct mechanisms. Lastly, the structure revealed that LAG3 dimers function like "molecular wedges" that restrict the intermolecular spacing of MHC-II molecules, which may create suboptimal geometry for activating T cell receptors. https://lnkd.in/ejtnvM6J
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2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar and neuroscientist Daniele Canzio credits his high school chemistry teacher for inspiring his passion for science. Now as an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, Daniele studies how genome folding might regulate gene expression programs in neurons. Read more on Daniele and the other 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars here: https://lnkd.in/ejSB4CxT #discoveryscience #RitaAllenScholar #innovation
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2021-23 Civic Science Fellow and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Julia Minson has developed an online teaching module to help participants improve their ability to have candid and constructive conversations. The module draws on behavioral research on disagreements and the role of conversations to offer tools to develop and signal receptiveness in conversations without sacrificing core beliefs and values. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eSmJNs5H #civicscience
How to discuss controversial issues constructively and productively
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Having grown up on the Connecticut shoreline, 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Alexander Meeske found his love for biology in the teeming lifeforms hidden under rocks and in tide pools at the beach. Today, Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington where he studies bacterial immune systems and bacteriophage-based strategies for antimicrobial intervention. Read more on Alexander and the other 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars here: https://lnkd.in/ejSB4CxT #discoveryscience #RitaAllenScholar #innovation
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2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Elizabeth Pollina was raised in a home deeply committed to advancing young women in the fields of mathematics and science. Following the example of her mother, a first-generation college student who established the Women in Science and Engineering program at the all-girls high school where she served as both a math teacher and the head of school, Elizabeth fell in love with neurobiology and academic research. Today she is an Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where her lab leverages tools and techniques from neuroscience, epigenetics, and DNA repair to advance our knowledge of genome fidelity in the nervous system. Read more on Elizabeth and the other 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars here: https://lnkd.in/ejSB4CxT #discoveryscience #RitaAllenScholar #innovation
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At Boston University's Pratt Laboratory, 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Erica D. Pratt and her team are developing enabling technologies for ultra-sensitive multiplexed profiling of liquid biopsies for cancer monitoring and precision medicine. Their work leverages next-generation genetic tools in combination with techniques from bioengineering and chemical biology. Read more on Erica and the other 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars here: https://lnkd.in/ejSB4CxT #discoveryscience #RitaAllenScholar #innovation
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In an interview with the Dana Foundation, 2024 Civic Science Fellow Erin Purvis shares her path to neuroscience research and a Civic Science Fellowship at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at UC Irvine where she is exploring the ethical and societal implications of sleep neuroscience in partnership with the local community in Santa Ana, California. #civicscience
While pursuing her Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania, Erin Purvis experienced firsthand the benefits of formalized community engagement in scientific training. Now as a Civic Science Fellow at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at UC Irvine, she aims to leverage her experiences to inform her exploration of the ethical and societal implications of sleep neuroscience in partnership with the local community in Santa Ana. Read about her work and her passion for inclusive and community-engaged science. #civicscience #neurosociety #neuroscience #sleep #communityengagement
Formalizing Community Engagement Training
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When 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Katelyn Sadler began her Ph.D. in Biology at Duquesne University, she had never taken a neuroscience class. Now as an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the The University of Texas at Dallas, she credits her supervisor and postdoctoral mentor for modeling the patience, support, and guidance she exhibits towards her mentees at the Sadler Lab, where her team explores how changes in the gut microbiome contribute to chronic pain. Read more on Katelyn and the other 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars here: https://lnkd.in/ejSB4CxT #discoveryscience #RitaAllenScholar #innovation
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