Forward Fest public conversation series continues as part of A Year of Forward Thinking
by the Office of Communications
March 16, 2021 12:02 p.m.
Forward Fest is a virtual public conversation series that aims to spark dialogue across the global Princeton community students, faculty, staff, alumni and other interested thinkers to engage with and explore big ideas and their infinite possibilities for shaping the future. The next Forward Fest takes place March 18 and focuses on Princeton’s growing interdisciplinary power in bioengineering.
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Princeton’s Forward Fest a virtual public conversation series and a monthly highlight of the University’s yearlong A Year of Forward Thinking community engagement campaign continues on Thursday, March 18, at 3:30 p.m., with a focus on Princeton’s growing interdisciplinary power in bioengineering.
Cell mapping expert receives HHMI diversity fellowship with eight years of support
Scott Lyon, Office of Engineering Communications
Feb. 18, 2021 1 p.m.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Princeton postdoctoral researcher Sofia Quinodoz a 2020 Hanna Gray Fellow, bolstering her study into how the structures within cells contribute to disease.
Quinodoz will receive up to $1.4 million over the next eight years, funding her bioengineering research at Princeton and granting her startup funds for an unspecified future role as a principal investigator. Quinodoz, whose family emigrated from Argentina in the mid-1980s, earned her bachelor s degree in molecular biology from Princeton in 2013. The HHMI fellowship connects her to a growing network of diverse, early career researchers who are tackling the most urgent problems in the life sciences.
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The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting brilliant, early career researchers, named 15 new
Damon Runyon Fellows. The recipients of this prestigious, four-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators across the country. The Fellowship encourages the nation s most promising young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by providing them with independent funding ($231,000 total) to work on innovative projects.
The Committee also selected five new recipients of the
Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists who will each receive $100,000 toward their research. This award provides additional funding to scientists completing a Damon Runyon Fellowship Award who have greatly exceeded Damon Runyon s highest expectations and are most likely to make paradigm-shifting breakthroughs that transform