Dr. Sallie Permar, a physician-scientist who investigates the prevention and treatment of neonatal viral infections, and Dr. Stephen Patrick, a neonatologist focused on the impact of the opioid epidemic on pregnant women and infants, have been jointly awarded the fifth annual Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research, Weill Cornell Medicine announced today.
Scientists have long known that cells can activate a small set of “rapid-response” genes to fight immediate threats like pathogens. But with so many genes stored in such a tiny package (the micron-scale nucleus), researchers have sought how signals can turn on select genes quickly and to high levels. Dr. Josefowicz’s team and collaborators had a hunch that a hidden code in histones, proteins that package DNA, played a key role in rapid gene expression.
That hunch proved correct when they...
NEW YORK (February 28, 2018) — Dr. Vijay Sankaran, a physician-scientist who investigates the molecular underpinnings of pediatric genetic blood disorders, has been awarded the third annual Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research, Weill Cornell Medicine announced today.The Drukier Prize honors an early-career pediatrician whose research has made important contributions toward improving the health of children and adolescents. Dr. Sankaran is a pediatric hematologist and...
