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Regeneron Announces the 2024 Winners of the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., July 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced the winners of the 12th annual Regeneron
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[{"type":"text","content":"TARRYTOWN, N.Y., July 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced the winners of the 12th annual Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation (the Regeneron Prize), an award that recognizes, celebrates and rewards outstanding talent and creativity from early-career scientists in biomedical research. Each year, Regeneron asks leading research universities across the United States to nominate their top graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, who are then invited to conceptualize and propose \"dream projects\" within the realm of biomedical science. The finalists present their proposals to a selection committee comprised of Regeneron’s leading scientists who evaluate the projects based on scientific merit, creativity and originality. This year’s winners are Christopher Giuliano and Julian Roessler, both Ph.D. candidates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Each has been awarded $50,000, in addition to a $10,000 grant to their home institution to support its seminar series. Six other finalists each received $5,000 awards. “We launched the Regeneron Prize twelve years ago to help encourage and reward ‘blue sky’ thinking in biomedicine,” said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., co-Founder, Board co-Chair, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. “Every amazing medical breakthrough that exists today — from a vaccine for polio, to a treatment for Ebola, to technologies that can edit genes within a patient’s body — was once just a crazy idea. Society needs more big ideas that could one day change lives, and these remarkable students have impressed and inspired us with their ability to think deeply, strategically and ambitiously.” Christopher Giuliano, a Ph.D. candidate in Biology at MIT, is working in the laboratory of Dr. Sebastian Lourido at the Whitehead Institute. As an undergraduate, Christopher simultaneously researched biochemistry in Dr. Steve Glynn’s lab at State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and cancer biology in Dr. Jason Sheltzer’s lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. Throughout his graduate career, he has pursued an interest in infectious disease and immunology studying the host response to Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. Christopher aims to repurpose the...