The Rita Allen Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, has named its 2022 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars.

Five  early-career leaders in the biomedical sciences will receive grants of up to $110,000 annually for up to five years to conduct innovative research on critical topics in cancer, immunology, and neuroscience—including studying how 3D DNA structures in the nucleus of cells impact gene regulation, developing novel molecular tools to understand and analyze brain circuits, and investigating the evolution of the cerebral cortex. This year’s scholars include Kevin Monahan (Rutgers University), Ahmed Abdelfattah (Brown University), Christopher Barnes (Stanford University), Ryan Flynn (Harvard Medical School), and Antonietta Tosches (Columbia University).

“We are delighted to welcome a new class of remarkable scientists seeking novel solutions to complex problems at the frontier of biological knowledge,” said Rita Allen Foundation president and CEO Elizabeth Good Christopherson. “The COVID19 pandemic made even clearer the importance of decades of biomedical research. The fundamental research these scientists are leading will lay the groundwork fand Maria or tomorrow’s transformative medicine.” 

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