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Photo (above right): From the lab of 2007 Pew Scholar David Sherwood. The C. elegans anchor cell (red) displays invasive behavior by breaching the basement membrane of the gonad (green).
Pew Scholars have a distinguished track record of accomplishments.
Alumna Carol W. Greider, a 1990 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, was one of three scientists awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Greider also won the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. And alumnus Craig C. Mello was one of two scientists awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
This section is updated with publications, press releases and media coverage about the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences.
Dec 03, 2007 - Smithsonian Magazine recently featured young innovators in the arts and sciences, and one of the up-and-comers was E. John Wherry, Ph.D., an immunologist at the Wistar Institute.
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Sep 06, 2007 - More than 200 Pew Biomedical Scholars gathered earlier this year for the 20th anniversary reunion of the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. It’s fair to say that they were excited.
Oct 16, 2006 - Two Pew Biomedical Scholars have won top science awards this fall.
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