Cori Bargmann leads President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative

May 30, 2014

Last June, JCC Board of Scientific Advisors member Cori Bargmann presented an ambitious plan for the future of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative to the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee. The plan, drafted by the BRAIN Working Group, […]

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A Year of Changes

October 30, 2013
Steve Elledge, Director of the BSA, reflects on the current state of the Fund

This has been my first year as the Scientific Director and Chair of the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisers. My predecessor, Randy Schekman, asked me to join the board in 2010 and then […]

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Dan Littman Joins the Board of Scientific Advisors

October 15, 2013

Also joining the BSA this year is Dan R. Littman, HHMI Investigator and Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine of New York University School of Medicine. “The JCC has […]

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Research & Achievements (2013)

October 1, 2013
Past and present JCC Fellows and BSA members make the news

Sebastian Deindl, JCC Fellow from 2010-2013 in Xiaowei Zhuang’s Harvard University lab, published “ISWI Remodelers Slide Nucleosomes with Coordinated Multi-Base-Pair Entry Steps and Single-Base-Pair Exit Steps” in the January 2013 issue of Cell. Two former JCC […]

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