To accelerate breakthroughs, the Damon Runyon Foundation provides today's best young scientists with funds to pursue innovative cancer research.
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June 30, 2006
10 former Damon Runyon Awardees won prestigious Burroughs Wellcome Fund Awards:
Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences
Karl Mark Ansel, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '01-'04) at Harvard Medical School and the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Boston, Massachusetts
Thomas G. Bernhardt, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '02-'04) at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
Michael D. Blower, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '03-'06) at the University of California, Berkeley, California
Leah E. Cowen, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '03-'05) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mondira Kundu, MD, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '00-'03) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cheng-Yu Lee, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '03-'06) at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Antonina Roll-Mecak, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '03-'06) at the University of California, San Francisco, California
Pardis C. Sabeti, MD, DPhil (Damon Runyon Fellow '04-'06) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Burroughs Wellcome Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award
Billy Tsai, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '00-'02) at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Burroughs Wellcome Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research
Cassian Yee, MD (Damon Runyon-Lilly Clinical Investigator '01-'06) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington





