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Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
Named after
Helen Hay Whitney
Formation
1943
Founder
Joan Whitney Payson
Founded at
New York
Website
hhwf.org
The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, established in New York in 1943 by Joan Whitney Payson in cooperation with the estate planning of her mother, Helen Hay Whitney (1875–1944), awards the "Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship" for support postdoctoral research in the biomedical sciences.
Currently the Foundation awards 20 fellowships per year.[1] The award is one of four highly competitive postdoctoral awards in the life sciences,[2] and many of North America's leading scientists and medical researchers were supported in the early stages of their career by the Whitney Foundation.
Members of the Scientific Advisory Committee have included:
Barbara Meyer
Erin O'Shea
Matthew Scharff
Daniel Kahne
Thomas Jessell
Stephen C. Harrison
Julie Theriot
Jonathan Weissman
S. Lawrence Zipursky
Notable fellows have included:
Eric J. Ackerman
David Agard
Ronald A. Albright
David J. Anderson
Karen M. Arndt
Cornelia Bargmann
Margaret Baron
Mary Anne Berberich
Megan Carey
Elizabeth Chen
Stephen Dinardo
Thomas P. Dooley
Stephen J. Elledge
Stanley Fields
Steven Finkel
Andrew Fire
Stephen C. Harrison
Richard Henderson
Tyler Jacks
Wendell Lim
Tomas Lindahl
Santa J. Ono
Susan Parkhurst
Stanley Perlman
Ronald T. Raines
Michael Rosbash
Gerald M. Rubin
Rao Yi
Keith Yamamoto
Robert Weinberg
Chris Q Doe
^History and Purpose Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, HHWF.org.
^JCC Fund Newsletter, 2007.
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