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Bold & Basic Grant Awarded to Reiter, Raleigh & Poskanzer

QBI held a competition to give away 1.1 million dollars for bold ideas and basic research in cancer and psychiatry. Four grants and four fellowships were awarded to the best collaborative ideas that merged both basic and clinical research. Jeremy Reiter and David Raleigh proposed a bold idea in cancer: How fats cause cancer: Lipids in the primary cilium activate oncogenic Hedgehog signaling.

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Peter Walter, Recipient of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award!

"On behalf of the Selection Committee I am writing to congratulate you on your selection as the co-recipient of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. Your selection is a high honor in recognition of the significant impact you have made on the professional careers and personal development of your mentees. You have enriched us all with your contributions to mentoring at UCSF."

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Geeta Narlikar Elected to the NAS Academy!

Narlikar and Ingraham are two of the 59 women elected this year-nearly half of the 120 new members. In a press release, National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt called that number "historic," saying that it �reflects the critical contributions that [women] are making in many fields of science, as well as a concerted effort by our Academy to recognize those contributions and the essential value of increasing diversity in our ranks."

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