Research published online Feb. 16 in the journal Current Biology opens up the potential of developing new forms of birth control and fertility treatment — and even new ways to combat many forms of cancer. […]

Director of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund’s Board of Scientific Advisors, Dr. Stephen Elledge, was awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize last December. BSA member Dr. Huda Zoghbi was also among the 2016 winners. Elledge received the […]

The JCC is pleased to welcome three new members of the Board of Scientific Advisors: Sandra Schmid, Professor and Chairman in Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, studies clathrin-mediated endocytosis and […]

In December 2016, HHMI Investigator Dr. Huda Zoghbi received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences “for discoveries of the genetic causes and biochemical mechanisms of spinocerebellar ataxia and Rett syndrome, findings that have provided insight […]

Dr. Cori Bargmann. Photo credit John Abbott / The Rockefeller University. As president for science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, neuroscientist Dr. Cori Bargmann will oversee a multi-billion dollar research effort aiming to “cure, prevent or […]