Mary Maynard Daly was the first
#BlackinChem
woman in America to receive a doctorate degree when she graduated from
@Columbia
in 1947. She spent the next 40 years teaching and performing groundbreaking research in biochemistry.
#BlackinBiological
“Kay Tye is a trailblazing investigator who studies the neural circuits underlying emotions which are among the most complicated and fascinating circuitries in the brain” Congratulations 🎉 to 2021 Laureate Kay Tye 🥇
@kaymtye
@salkinstitute
#blavatnik2021
Congratulations to Prof.
@OdedRechavi
on winning the Schmidt Science Polymath Award, "an experiment in extreme curiosity-driven innovation."
We look forward to hearing about the
#bigideas
to come out of this initiative!
@SchmidtFutures
More:
It is with great pleasure that we welcome to the stage Professor Daniele Leonori from the University of Manchester last year's 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK 🇬🇧 🏅Laureate in Chemistry
@LeonoriLab
@OfficialUoM
@UoMChemistry
Wireless headphone between brain 🧠 and muscles💪 ? 2007 Blavatnik Regional Award Winner
@GeorgeMalliaras
@Cambridge_Uni
is developing wireless electronic implants to restore limb mobility after nerve damage. Check his work
@InnoOrigins
🎉The Blavatnik Awards and
@nyasciences
are excited to announce the Honourees of the 2024 Blavatnik Awards in the UK! Please join us in congratulating these nine incredible scientists sparking innovations that will transform our future world. Learn more:
Imagine cooler summers + a cooler 🌎 '18 National Finalist
@DincaGroupMIT
@ChemistryMIT
is re-imagining how air conditioners work, utilizing new materials called metal organic frameworks
#MOF
that act like sponges on steroids + have less impact on
#climate
“The possibility that the nervous system could generate heritable responses was especially intriguing” -2018 Blavatnik Awards
#Israel
Laureate
@OdedRechavi
@TelAvivUni
speaks about inherited learning through
#RNA
in the nervous system in
@QuantaMagazine
2019 Blavatnik National Finalist, Prof. Michael Jewett
@jewettlab_NU
is using his cell-free manufacturing method to ramp up production of
#valinomycin
, a promising drug that has proven effective in obliterating
#SARS
-CoV in cellular culture
#COVID
-19
This year we honor several new Blavatnik National Finalists in
#chemistry
, including Rebekka Klausen (
@JohnsHopkins
) and Sara Skrabalak (
@IndianaUniv
)
2022 could be your year! Nominations are now open for the 2022 Blavatnik National Awards, more info:
#IWD2022
Last week in London, we honored six award-winning 🏅 female scientists 🔬⚛️⚗️ leading their fields in neuroscience, paleobiology, volcanology & material science at a gala ceremony celebrating the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK 🇬🇧
#BreakTheBias
Can you hear 👂 me now? 2018 Blavatnik National Awards Finalist Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva
@ABoltasseva
@LifeAtPurdue
@PurdueECE
@PurdueQuantum
has developed nonlinear optical materials that could may lead to novel telecommunication devices
Congratulations to 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK 🇬🇧 🏅 Laureate in Life Sciences Dr. Madeline Lancaster from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
@Mad_Lancaster
and
@MRC_LMB
#Blavatnik2022
Why are there colors in the
#ocean
🌊 🐡🦑 🐠 🐙? Don't miss the Sea Secrets Lecture Series 2021 with oceanographer Derya Akkaynak
@dakkaynak
2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
@HarborBranch
@univmiami
on April 13, 6:30 PM ET REGISTER Here:
#seathru
2017 Blavatnik National Laureate Melanie Sanford is busy training the next generation of Blavatnik scholars! 14-year-old undergraduate student Daniel Liu, who is already published in
@J_A_C_S
becomes the youngest member of the
@Sanford_Lab
@MichiganChem
Why are there colors in the
#ocean
🌊 🐡🦑 🐠 🐙? Don't miss the Sea Secrets Lecture Series 2021 on April 13, 6:30 PM ET with oceanographer Derya Akkaynak
@dakkaynak
2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
@HarborBranch
@univmiami
REGISTER HERE
#seathru
Honored in absentia, 2020 Israel 🇮🇱 Laureate in Life Sciences
@IgorUlitsky
@WeizmannScience
uncovered functions of a new class of RNA molecules, long noncoding RNA,
#lncRNA
revealing ways how they evolve and regulate cellular activities.
#Blavatnik2021
2019 Blavatnik National Awards Finalist Prof. Cliff Brangwynne’s
@brangwynnelab
new work
@Princeton
uses real-time microscopy to reveal the cellular dynamics that result in “stress granules”, condensates that appear when cells are in distress.
Blavatnik Awards 🇬🇧 Finalist in Chemistry Prof
@SGoldup
@GoldupLab
@unisouthampton
receives his Award for developing elegant methods for the construction of mechanically interlocked molecules at the 2020 Awards Ceremony
#Blavatnik2020
CONGRATS to 2018
@BlavatnikAwards
UK Laureate
@m_madan_babu
@StJude
. He was elected to be a
@acmedsci
fellow. His computational and experimental methods to study G protein-coupled receptors could explain differentiating responses to drug treatment
#GPCR
Katheryn Emanuel Lawson was a
#BlackinPhysical
chemist who worked at
@SandiaLabs
in the Crystal Physics research division. Lawson studied the molecular structure of irradiated materials and helped validate Crystal Field Theory in the 60s.
#BlackinChem
Dr. Moddie Taylor was a
#BlackinInorganic
chemist whose early studies of rare earth metals led to his participation in the Manhattan Project. He would then join
@HowardU
where he would publish an influential chemistry textbook and win awards for teaching.
"This [study] suggests that hydrogen can be used to tune the dynamics and the electronic structure of iron which could be harnessed to create or improve chemical reactions," said Prof Patrick Holland
@YaleChem
@Yale
and 2013 Blavatnik Regional Award Winner
2023 Laureate🥇in Chemistry
@lab_rosenzweig
@WeizmannScience
has uncovered a secret behind our cells' quality control system. It prevents + reverses protein misfolding, protecting us against neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's
#blavatnik2023
🇮🇱
Derya Akkaynak
@dakkaynak
@HarborBranch
@Princeton
@WHOI
was recently honored as a 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist. Her innovative work on algorithms to improve underwater photography is featured in Dec 2019 issue of Scientific American
@sciam
!
“Mircea Dincă has been widely recognized as the consensus leader in the field of conducting metal-organic frameworks, a field that he himself invented...” Congratulations 🎉 to 2021 Laureate in Chemistry 🥇
@DincaGroupMIT
@ChemistryMIT
@MIT
#Blavatnik2021