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Peter Vogt Named Albert Einstein Professor by Chinese Academy of Sciences

Peter Vogt, executive vice president and chief scientific officer of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has been named 2013 Albert Einstein Professor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). As part of the award, he will spend two to three weeks visiting several Chinese academic institutions and delivering lectures and seminars at two major Chinese universities.

Vogt says he sees the award as a unique opportunity to initiate and strengthen personal and institutional relationships involving TSRI and top-level Chinese science. His principal host institutions for this professorship are the CAS Institute of Biophysics in Beijing and the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, which also belongs to CAS.

CAS awards 20 of these high-profile professorships every year. The recipients are selected on the basis of a worldwide competition that extends to all disciplines of science, engineering and mathematics. The other US awardees for 2013 include Alexis Bell (Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley), Peter Meszaros (Astrophysics, Penn State), James L. Manley (Molecular Biology, Columbia University), Mark Harrison (Earth Sciences, UCLA) and Tony Hunter (Cell Signaling, Salk Institute).


Leopold Kong Receives Fellowship for AIDS Research

Leopold Kong, research associate in The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Wilson lab, is one of four recipients nationwide in the sixth round of Mathilde Krim Fellowships in Basic Biomedical Research awards from amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. The award supports Kong’s research on a unique approach toward developing an HIV/AIDS vaccine, targeting the protective coating of sugar-like molecules that surround the HIV/AIDS virus.





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