Research Awards
Recent Research Award Winners in the News
- – Helmholtz Munich
Recognized Scientific Excellence: Katrin Svensson receives the Helmholtz Heidi Award
– Helmholtz MunichRecognized Scientific Excellence: Katrin Svensson receives the Helmholtz Heidi Award
The 𝗛𝗲𝗜𝗗𝗶 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 recognizes outstanding early-career scientists whose innovative research is helping to advance the field of diabetes and metabolism.
– Wellcome LeapFocused Antibiotics | Wellcome Leap: Unconventional Projects. Funded at Scale.
The goal of the Leap Focused Antibiotics program is to reformulate existing antibiotics to spare the gut microbiome without loss of treatment efficacy.
– Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $4.2 million to exceptional earlyZhuoran Li, a postdoctoral fellow in Katrin Svensson’s lab, has received the Damon Runyon Rellowship Award for exceptional early-career scientists: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $4.2 million to exceptional early-career scientists
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named 14 new Damon Runyon Fellows, brilliant postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators. This prestigious Fellowship encourages the nation's most promising young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by providing them with independent funding ($300,000 total over four years) to investigate cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention.
– AACRDr. Thodore Roth receives AACR Trailblazer Cancer Research Grants for Early-stage Investigators
The AACR Trailblazer Cancer Research Grants for Early-stage Investigators aim to empower and support cancer researchers, help launch their careers, and enable them to become thought leaders in the field. These grants are intended to provide talented investigators with the resources and dedicated time to establish innovative, emerging research projects...
– American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)Garry Nolan, Phd, has been named Fellow of the AACR Academy Class of 2026
For stellar contributions to the understanding of the cellular and molecular architecture of the immune system and cancer, and for pioneering the use of high-dimensional single-cell technologies...
– Eight Stanford faculty named Sloan Research FellowsEight Stanford faculty named Sloan Research Fellows
The award recognizes early-career scientists whose accomplishments mark them as the next generation of leaders.
Distinguished Faculty Awards
A History of Accomplishment
From Andrew Fire's Nobel Prize in Medicine to awards for the best teaching in a medical college, Stanford Dept. of Pathology faculty have received acclaim from their peers and the broader research community.