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Sadelin & Campana Receive 2019 Gabbay Award on October 2

May 22, 2019 By

2019 Gabbay Award winners

Michel Sadelain, the director of the Center for Cell Engineering at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), and Dario Campana, a professor of pediatrics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS) will receive the 2019 Jacob and Louise Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 4:00 PM at Shapiro Campus Center Theater. Michel Sadelin and Dario Campana will deliver a talk at that time.

Both scientists receive the Gabbay Award this year for their research into CAR T-cell therapy that has resulted in breakthrough cancer treatments.

The Gabbay Award was created in 1998 by the Jacob and Louise Gabbay Foundation in order to recognize scientists working in academia, medicine or industry for their outstanding achievements developing scientific content and significant results in the biomedical sciences.

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Lorenz Studer to receive the 2018 Gabbay Award on October 9

September 27, 2018 By

Lorenz Studer, Director for the Center for Stem Cell Biology and a member of the Developmental Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will receive the 2018 Gabbay Award on October 9, 2018 at 4:00 PM at the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. At that time, Studer will deliver a talk titled “Building and Repairing the Human Brain: from Pluripotency to Cell Therapy.”

Lorenz Studer is receiving the award “in recognition of his innovative and transformative contributions to the fields of stem cell biology and patient-specific, cell-based therapy”.

The Gabbay Award was created in 1998 by the Jacob and Louise Gabbay Foundation in order to recognize scientists working in academia, medicine or industry for their outstanding achievements developing scientific content and significant results in the biomedical sciences.

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James Collins to receive the 2017 Gabbay Award on Oct. 18

October 12, 2017 By

James Collins

On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, the 2017 Jacob and Louise Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine will be given to James J. Collins from MIT. Professor Collins will be delivering his lecture entitled Synthetic Biology: Life Redesigned at 4:00pm at Brandeis in Gerstenzang 121.

Professor Collins is receiving the award “for his inventive work in synthetic biology that created a new area of research, enabling multiple biomedical applications and launching a new sector of the biotechnology industry”. He is the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, also Core Founding Faculty at the Wyss Institute (Harvard University) and an Institute Member of the Broad Institute.

The Gabbay Award was created in 1998 by the Jacob and Louise Gabbay Foundation in order to recognize scientists working in academia, medicine or industry for their outstanding achievements developing scientific content and significant results in the biomedical sciences.

 

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Jeffery Kelly to receive the 2016 Jacob and Louise Gabbay Award

June 3, 2016 By
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Jeffery W. Kelly

Jeffery W. Kelly, the Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry, and Chairman of the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute, has been selected to receive the 2016 Jacob and Louise Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine “in recognition of his profound and paradigm-shifting contributions to our understanding of protein folding mechanisms and protein misfolding diseases”.

The award, administered by the Rosenstiel Center at Brandeis, consists of a $15,000 cash prize and a medallion. Dr. Kelly will deliver the award lecture on “The Chemistry and Biology of Adapting Proteostasis for Disease Intervention” in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater at 4:00PM, on Thursday, September 29, 2016.

The Kelly Group focuses their research on understanding the principles of protein folding and comprehending the basis for misfolding diseases. They strive to develop novel therapeutic strategies using chemistry, biophysical and cell biology approaches.

 

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Bisphenol A researchers win Gabbay Award

October 22, 2012 By

Bisphenol A (BPA) has been used in the synthesis of polycarbonate plastics over the years. BPA is also a powerful estrogen analog. Three researchers, Patricia Hunt (Washington State Univ.), Ana Soto (Tufts) and Carlos Sonnenschein (Tufts), will today be awarded the 2012 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award for their work identifying the cellular and developmental effects of BPA exposure. The three will lecture today, Oct. 22, at 3:30 pm in Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library.

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James P. Allison to deliver Gabbay Award Lecture

November 3, 2011 By

James Allison, PhD  from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center will receive the 2011 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine “for his development of strategies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and for immunotherapy of cancer”. The award, administered by the Rosenstiel Center at Brandeis, consists of a $15,000 cash prize and a medallion. Dr. Allison will deliver the award lecture on Mobilizing the immune system to treat cancer: Immune checkpoint blockade, on Monday, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:30 pm in Gerstenzang 121.

Allison and his lab are interested in the mechanisms that regulate T cell responses and using that understanding to improve clinical outcomes in areas ranging from autoimmunity, to allergy to vaccination to  tumor therapy.

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