BOSTON, Sept. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A MacArthur Fellowship has been awarded to Vamsi Mootha, Harvard Medical School assistant professor in the HMS Department of Systems Biology and the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"This extraordinary award to one of our new recruits in the Systems Biology Department confirms our selection of Vamsi as a leading young thinker in computational approaches to biological questions," said HMS dean Joseph Martin.
Mootha, a clinician-researcher, is developing experimental and computational strategies to integrate genomic, proteomic, and microarray data to accelerate human disease-gene discovery. He has previously used these coordinated techniques to identify the gene that causes Leigh Syndrome French Canadian variant, a fatal metabolic disease.
The $500,000 "genius" grant, announced Sept. 28 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is a five-year, no-strings-attached award. Twenty-three grants were given for 2004, but there is no application or interviewing procedure -- instead, candidates are nominated, evaluated, and selected through a confidential process.
Fellows are selected for their originality, creativity, and potential.
MEDIA CONTACT:
John Lacey, Harvard Medical School, 617-432-0442; public_affairs@hms.harvard.edu
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Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Cambridge Hospital, The CBR Institute for
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Cancer Institute, Forsyth Institute, Harvard Pilgrim Health
Care, Joslin Diabetes Center, Judge Baker Children's Center,
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, McLean
Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital, Schepens Eye Research
Institute, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, VA Boston
Healthcare System. See: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/
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