The Ellison Medical Foundation will award $150,000 over 2 years for the expansion of cell lines as part of the Human Genome Diversity Project-Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain Initiative. This project will contribute to understanding human genetic variation, evolution, and population genetics.
Senior and New Scholars Awards for Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Stanford University School of Medicine
1998 New Initiative Scholar Award in Other
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Dr. Stanley N. Cohen
Stanford University School of Medicine
2002 senior Scholar Award in aging
Normal human cells growing outside the body in culture media have a finite ability to reproduce. An internal "clock" forces them eventually to stop dividing and enter an irreversible state of proliferative arrest termed "replicative senescence" (RS). There is evidence that RS represents aging at the cellular level and that the mechanisms causing...
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Dr. Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Stanford University School of Medicine
1998 senior Scholar Award in aging
Subjects who can comfortably reach very old ages may have an advantageous consatellation of genes, giving them resistance to many causes of stress and disease, or may simply have one or more genes affecting the duration of their life. Such longevity genes have been observed in other organisms. The contribution to the study of aging we are...
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Dr. Irving Weissman
Stanford University School of Medicine
2008 senior Scholar Award in aging
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and myeloproliferative disorders (MPD) are clonal hematopoietic (blood-forming) disorders primarily affecting patients over the age of 65. These disorders arise in hemtopoietic stem cells (HSC), are associated with an increased risk of progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and have few effective therapies....
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Dr. Philip C. Hanawalt
Stanford University School of Medicine
2000 senior Scholar Award in aging
Accumulation of deleterious alterations in neuronal DNA has been invoked in models for neurological diseases and aging. While there has been a fair amount of speculation, there have been few definitive studies in this important field. We have been studying the excision repair of DNA damage induced by ultraviolet light in terminally differentiated...
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Dr. Helen M. Blau
Stanford University School of Medicine
2001 senior Scholar Award in aging
A challenge for the next decade will be to enhance the prospects for the increasing number of elderly afflicted with debilitating neurological diseases: Parkinson's or stroke. We recently discovered that adult bone marrow, transplanted into adult recipients, migrates to the brain and adopts neuronal characteristics. The goal of this proposal is... |
Dr. David S. Schneider
Stanford University School of Medicine
2008 senior Scholar Award in aging
We study the way that aging and immunity interact with each other. The only way we have now of extending the lifespan of a healthy person is through diet restriction. We found it interesting that when animals get infected they often become anorexic and this reduces food intake in the same way as does diet restriction. We wondered if these animals...
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Dr. Gary K. Schoolnik
Stanford University School of Medicine
2002 senior Scholar Award in gid
The legendary capacity of Vibrio cholerae, the agent of Asiatic cholera, to spawn global epidemics, is well known to medical historians. Its epicenter is the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers in Bangladesh. There, localized outbreaks occur most years at the end of the monsoon season. Between outbreaks of... |
Dr. Stanley Falkow
Stanford University School of Medicine
2001 senior Scholar Award in gid
The goal of the research is to examine the differences in typhoid bacilli causing acute typhoid fever as compared to the bacteria isolated from chronic typhoid carriers in Vietnam. One further component of our proposed work will be to obtain peripheral blood from patients suffering from acute typhoid fever to determine if there is a distinct...
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Dr. Karla Kirkegaard
Stanford University School of Medicine
2003 senior Scholar Award in gid
When most viruses infect human cells, they amplify their genetic material so that, in time, each infected cell contains multiple copies. A distinguishing feature of viruses whose genetic material is composed of RNA, not DNA, is the high rate of mutation associated with copying the RNA even once or twice. Therefore, each cell infected with a... |
Dr. John C. Boothroyd
Stanford University School of Medicine
2002 senior Scholar Award in gid
The role of sex in spread of a disease is usually thought of in terms of sexually transmitted diseases and sex between an infected host and an uninfected sexual partner. But sex between the pathogens themselves also plays a crucial role in how a given disease emerges and evolves. Such evolution can give rise to pathogens able to infect a wider... |
Dr. David S. Schneider
Stanford University School of Medicine
2002 new Scholar Award in gid
Malaria is a disease that still infects hundreds of millions of people each year and kills more than a million. There is no useful vaccine and the parasite is becoming resistant to all available drugs. New methods are needed to combat this disease.
Our goal is to understand the factors in an insect-parasite relationship that control the... |
Dr. Ronald W. Davis
Stanford University School of Medicine
2002 senior Scholar Award in gid
For more than 100 years, if you wanted to know what organisms were present in any given ecological niche, you took a swab from the niche and streaked the swab on an agar plate, incubated the plate, looked for colonies, and examined what grew. For a somewhat more sophisticated approach, you would streak the swab on several agar plates containing a...
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Dr. David A. Relman
Stanford University School of Medicine, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
2001 senior Scholar Award in gid
Our understanding of the microorganisms that inhabit the human body is woefully inadequate. The diversity, abundance, and activities of these microorganisms are all matters of both importance and ignorance. This might seem surprising given that the human body contains far more microbial cells than it contains human cells. The repercussions of... |
Non-Scholar Awards for Stanford University School of Medicine
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2004 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support the EMF Keynote Lecturer, Dr. Carla Shatz; the symposium on Telomerase and Aging; and scholarships for student presenters in the minisymposium on The Aging Cell held at the 13th International Society of Differentiation, Inc. Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii September 5-9, 2004. For further...
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2001 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,000 to help support the Symposium on Aging: Biology, Disease and Economics held at Stanford University School of Medicine on March 13, 2001.
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2001 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Workshop on DNA Repair and Related DNA Transactions held October 4-7, 2001 at the Stanford University Alumni Association's Conference Center at Fallen Leaf, Lake Tahoe, California.
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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.
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