Shelley Berger, PIK Professor and Daniel S. Och Professor, and Virginia M.-Y. Lee, John H. Ware 3rd Professor in Alzheimer’s Research, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Drs. Berger and Lee were two of three Penn faculty inducted into the 2013 class. The Academy honors persons of exceptional achievement with membership; members then serve by applying their expertise toward Academy projects addressing contemporary policy issues.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 15:00
Barbara Wold, PhD
Caltech
The next frontier in the genome sciences will be developing technology that captures novel quantitative biological measurements ... more about genomics
PGFI member John Maris, Director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at CHOP and Professor of Pediatrics at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, will co-lead with NCI Chief of Pediatric Oncology, Crystal Mackall, a $14.5 million project, “Immunogenomics to Create New Therapies for High-Risk Childhood Cancers.” Dream Team Investigators include PGFI Associate Director Tom Curran and PGFI member Richard Aplenc.
PGFI member Jean Bennett, F.M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology, was recognized by the Clinical Research Forum for her 2012 published work showing the potential of gene therapy to restore vision in patients blinded by Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis. These Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement awardees were selected as exemplars of scientific innovation that have resulted in clinical advances having tremendous potential to benefit human health.
NIH award for new computing cluster
PGFI has been awarded an almost $2 million grant to purchase a state-of-the-art cluster from IBM (1280 processors with 8GB RAM per core, a 850TB high-performance file system, and a 750TB tape data archive system). The system, expected to go online September 2013, will enable greater capacity and lower cost for genomic computing.