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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences By Corie Lok April 5, 2025 Breadcrumb Home David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Liu is honored for the development of base editing and prime editing, two gene editing technologies transforming medicine. In 2013, Broad founding director Eric S.

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NIRISS instrument on Webb maps an ultra-hot Jupiter's atmosphere

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

There's an intriguing exoplanet out there -- 400 light-years out there -- that is so tantalizing that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009. One orbit for WASP-18 b around its star that is slightly larger than our Sun takes just 23 hours. There is nothing like it in our Solar System.

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Keypoint Newsletter: Expanding the Fellows Program to Include Postdocs

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Established in 2009, Keystone Symposia’s Fellows Program has become a premier professional advancement opportunity for rising scientists from diverse backgrounds.

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Keypoint Newsletter: Fellows Community Updates & Call for Applications

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This unique, cutting-edge, life science Fellowship is designed to support the career development of postdoctoral and early-career scientists from underrepresented and other disadvantaged backgrounds who are engaged in biological or biomedical sciences research.

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#WhyIScience Q&A: A research scientist uses mass spectrometry to discover how metabolites affect human health

Broad Institute

That interest in science led her to a weekend science course and a field trip to a plant research laboratory, where she saw scientists hybridizing roses and genetically modifying tomatoes. Deik moved to the Broad in 2009 and joined Clish as a biochemist in the Platform, where she also serves as lab manager.

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ELRIG Appoints Dr Del Trezise as Chair

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In 2009, heco-founded the European arm of Essen BioScience, playing a pivotal role in developing industrial-scale, live-cell imaging technology for drug discovery. ELRIG serves a global network ofover 22,000 life science professionalsfrom biopharma, biotech, contract research organisations (CROs), academia, and industry vendors.

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Richard M. Johnson Celebrated for Dedication to the Pharmaceuticals Industry

The Pharma Data

A leader in his field, Mr. Johnson has served as the president and the chief executive officer of the Parenteral Drug Association since 2009. Johnson pursued an education at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1977 and a Master of Science in microbiology in 1979.