Not exact matches
Next Wave asked some of academia's rising stars (see box)-- marked out as such because the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has chosen to
award them its prestigious Young
Investigator accolade — to
share the secrets of their success.
Last year, it announced the K99 / R00 Pathway to Independence (PI)
award, a new mechanism designed to increase the
share of federally - funded
awards received by younger
investigators and to create institutional incentives to help postdocs become independent
investigators.
This program
shares some elements with the Maximizing
Investigators» Research
Award (MIRA) program from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Outstanding
Investigator Award program from the National Cancer Institute, all of which use the R35 funding mechanism.
Zhang has also received the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman
Award (2014), the Jacob Heskel Gabbay
Award in Biotechnology and Medicine (2014,
shared with Charpentier and Doudna), the Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki
Award (2015), and the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) Chen New
Investigator Award (2016).