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December 17, 2024
Yale Ventures is Seeking Three Full-Time Blavatnik Fellows to Join the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in New Haven

This one-year fellowship is ideal for high-potential professionals with expertise in therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and/or digital health, offering a unique opportunity to work closely with Yale faculty and research teams on breakthrough life science technologies. Blavatnik Fellows have the opportunity to collaborate with world-class innovators and leverage Yale’s $65M grant fund to explore the commercial potential of cutting-edge research, develop entrepreneurial skills, and transition into leadership roles in biotech startups, Yale spinouts, or healthcare investment after completing the program. The deadline to apply is February 14, 2025.

Higher Education
November 22, 2024
Meet the Presenters: Yale Innovators Announced for the 2024 Yale Life Sciences Pitchfest

Yale Ventures is pleased to announce the 34 Yale faculty members who have been selected to present at the Yale Life Science Pitchfest on December 5, 2024. The event will showcase groundbreaking research in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health, with presenters delivering 5-minute pitches followed by 3-minute Q&A sessions with a panel of judges. The annual event, hosted by Yale Ventures, serves as the semifinals for The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, an accelerator fund dedicated to advancing the commercialization of applied research and technology in the life sciences.

Blavatnik Awards
October 29, 2024
Cal Tech Professor and 2022 Blavatnik Awards National Laureate, Hosea Nelson, on the Value of a Chemistry Education

Listen to the Bloomberg Businessweek podcast as Bloomberg News Higher-Education Finance Reporter Janet Lorin and Hosea Nelson, Professor of Chemistry at Cal Tech, discuss why chemistry and science should be taught to encourage students and not to weed them out. Nelson was the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientist Laureate in Chemistry. He was recognized for his work popularizing a technique called microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) that can determine the positions of atoms within small molecules with unprecedented detail—particularly small molecules that are useful for drug development and industrial chemical production.

Blavatnik Awards
October 8, 2024
Israeli-American Scientist, Who Won Top US Research Prize, Credits Her Jewish Identity for Her Resilience

Cigall Kadoch was inspired to become a medical researcher as a teenager when her caretaker, whom she saw as a mentor, got sick and died suddenly. Kadoch not only trained as a medical researcher—in college at the University of California, Berkeley and then a doctorate in cancer biology from Stanford School of Medicine—but after establishing her own lab, at age 28, in 2014, she is “one of the youngest scientists ever appointed to the Harvard Medical School faculty,” per her Dana-Farber bio. Last month, she landed one of the most prestigious scientific awards in the United States, the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. She credits much of her success, and her outlook, to her Jewish identity.

Blavatnik Awards
October 2, 2024
Ohio State Professor Named Blavatnik National Awards Finalist

David Nagib, an organic chemist and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The Ohio State University, has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The award celebrates exceptional early career scientists under 42 years of age who have sought to innovate their field by pursuing high-risk, high-reward research. On Oct. 1, Nagib was honored in New York City at the American Museum of Natural History during the 2024 Blavatnik Awards Gala ceremony.

Scientific Research
October 1, 2024
Recipients of the Blavatnik Acceleration Fund Push the Boundaries in Medicine and Engineering

This year, the Blavatnik Acceleration Fund at Columbia Engineering will support four teams researching bladder cancer, embryonic brain development, spontaneous preterm birth, and the basis of common language disorders. These awards are supported by the School’s Blavatnik Fund for Engineering Innovations in Health, made possible with the generous support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Columbia Engineering alumnus Len Blavatnik MS’91.

Blavatnik Awards
September 27, 2024
Blavatnik Foundation Honors Accomplished Indian American Scientists

On September 17, The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences announced the 2024 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists laureates and finalists. This follows the earlier announcement of the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards honorees.

Scientific Research
September 24, 2024
STEM Fellowship Propels Student’s Cancer Research Projects to Publication

In fall 2021, Fordham received a $250,000 gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, established by Ukrainian-born industrialist Len Blavatnik to support the arts, culture, and the sciences at institutions around the globe. The gift in support of STEM education at Fordham included funds for student research fellowships, one of which was awarded to Biggs in fall 2023. It proved a crucial accelerant to her research, making “a world of a difference,” she said.

Blavatnik Awards
September 18, 2024
Two Yale Scholars Receive Blavatnik Awards for Top Young Scientists

Two Yale research scientists – computer scientist Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi and geneticist Nicole Lake — are among nine recipients of the Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists, which honor outstanding postdoctoral scientists from academic research institutions from across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

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