Congratulations Kira!
This award reflects National Science Foundation's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
The I2CELL Seed Award is attributed to Professor Wallace Marshall from UCSF to model single cell organisms as finite state automata. Wallace Marshall, director of the Center for Cellular Construction at the University of California, San Francisco, receives the I2Cell Seed Award.
The Stein and Moore Award, named for Nobel laureates Dr. William Stein and Dr. Stanford Moore, venerates their contribution to understanding the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active center of the ribonuclease molecule. Established in 1986, the Stein and Moore Award is given to recognize eminent leaders in protein science who have made sustained high impact research contributions to the field.