Senior and New Scholars Awards for Boston University

Dr. James J. Collins

Boston University
2007 senior Scholar Award in aging
Remarkable progress in genomic research is leading to a complete map of the building blocks of biology. Knowledge of this map is, in turn, fueling the study of gene regulation, where proteins often regulate their own production, or that of other proteins, in a complex web of interactions. An important challenge in post-genomic aging research...

Dr. Thomas Tullius

Boston University
2009 senior Scholar Award in aging

Genome damage caused by reactive oxygen species has long been though to be associated with aging and neurodegeneration. Because of limitations in available experimental methods, previous work focused on determining the overall levels of various kinds of oxidative damage. It is likely, though, that the structure of the chromosome will have a...

Non-Scholar Awards for Boston University

2005 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support the session on ìPathogenesis of C. neoformans Infectionsî at the Boston University School of Medicineís 6th International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis held June 24-28, 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts. For further information, see...

Funded Institutions

The Ellison Medical Foundation fosters research by means of grants-in-aid on behalf of investigators to universities and laboratories within the United States. Institutions receiving awards must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or U.S. colleges or universities.