Current and Former Awardees
Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientists
2023 Recipients
Liudmila Andreeva, PhD
"Making an inflammasome: Structural and biochemical elucidation of NLRP3 inflammasome activation"
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Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen
Erin E. Duffy, PhD
"Activity-dependent changes in RNA stability as a mechanism for synaptic plasticity"
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Harvard Medical School
Courtney Ellison, PhD
"The regulation and function of type IV pili in Acinetobacter biofilm formation"
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University of Georgia
Christopher P. Lapointe, PhD
“Fundamental mechanisms that underlie human translation initiation and its dysregulation in cancer”
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Abigail Overacre-Delgoffe, PhD
"Harnessing the immune response to cancer through the microbiota"
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UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Tyler Starr, PhD
"Protein evolution at the host-virus interface"
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University of Utah
Benjamin M. Stinson, PhD
"Mechanism of DNA processing during non-homologous end joining"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Lexy von Diezmann, PhD
"Single-molecule dynamics of DNA repair assemblies in live cells"
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University of Minnesota
2022 Recipients
Robert S. Banh, PhD
“Codon- and nutrient-specific regulation of mRNA translation in pancreatic cancer”
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New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Allison L. Didychuk, PhD
“Understanding the mechanism of genome packaging in oncogenic herpesviruses"
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Yale University
Dian Yang, PhD
“Molecular recording of tumor evolution in response to macrophage modulations”
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Columbia University
Xiaoyu Zhang, PhD
“Discovery of chemical probes that support targeted protein degradation in human cancer”
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Northwestern University
Xin Zhou, PhD
“Designing signaling proteins to enact anti-tumor responses"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School
2021 Recipients
Leeat Keren, PhD
"Studying the tumor immune microenvironment in pancreatic cancer using multiplexed imaging"
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Weizmann Institute of Science
Nora Kory, PhD
"Mitochondrial transporters in metabolite compartmentalization and homeostasis"
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kara L. McKinley, PhD
"Physiology and pathology of the uterus"
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Harvard University
Deepshika Ramanan, PhD
"Identifying functions of regulatory T cell subsets in intestinal inflammation and colorectal cancer"
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The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
2020 Recipients
Lindsay B. Case, PhD
"Understanding the physical principles that regulate cell signaling"
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Natasha M. O'Brown, PhD
"Molecular and cellular regulators of blood-brain barrier function"
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Rutgers University
2019 Recipients
Tera C. Levin, PhD
"Master microbial manipulators: how hosts are shaped by bacterial interactions"
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University of Pittsburgh
Esteban A. Orellana Vinueza, PhD
"tRNA dysregulation and cancer"
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St. Jude
Alistair B. Russell, PhD
"Impact of heterogeneity on the cellular recognition of influenza"
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University of California, San Diego
2018 Recipients
Ryan D. Baldridge, PhD
"Investigating the mechanism of retro-translocation by ERAD"
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University of Michigan
Chao Lu, PhD
"Chromatin dysregulation as driver of oncogenesis"
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Columbia University
Shruti Naik, PhD
"Immune-epidermal stem cell crosstalk in skin inflammation"
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New York University School of Medicine
2017 Recipients
Gira Bhabha, PhD
"High-resolution studies of dynein structure and mechanism"
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New York University School of Medicine
Andrew A. Bridges, PhD
"Bacterial cell fates: The role of quorum sensing in biofilm patterning"
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Carnegie Mellon University
Jens C. Schmidt, PhD
"Single-molecule analysis of telomerase recruitment to telomeres"
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Michigan State University
Jakob von Moltke, PhD
"Initiation of type 2 immune responses"
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University of Washington
2016 Recipients
Ivana Gasic, Dr.Sc.
"Molecular elucidation of the interphase Microtubule Integrity Response (MIR)"
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University of Geneva
2014 Recipients
David K. Breslow, PhD
Dissecting the role of the ciliary transport machinery in oncogenic signal transduction
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Stanford University School of Medicine
