2002 Beckman Young Investigators
Award Recipients

Award Recipient Index:

2005
Bartels
Becerra
Chang
DeLisa
Drezek
Dubnau
Gallivan
Gasch
Gray
He
Jin
Krebs
LeDuc
Licht
Loo
Micalizio
Munz
O'Connor
Rabinowitz
Reineke
Sheen
Smolke
Soh
Wang

2004
Ameer
Green
Groves
Hill
Keating
Kuhlman
Macbeath
Maggard
Mahal
McQuade
Pandey
Rector
Sanford
Schnitzer
Schulman
Simpson
Stowell
White
Zanni


2003
Allen
Biggins
Lu Chen
Zhan Chen
De Moraes
Feng
Hergenrother
Irvine
Ismagilov
Kiick
Li
Lin
Lynn
Matzger
Odorizzi
Orth
Robinson
Smith
Yarema
Zhuang

2001
Braun
Cremer
Caterina
Chang
Connick
DuBois
Fang
Guan
Hersam
Hsieh-Wilson
Miesenboeck
Rye
Visscher
Vosshall
Wilker
Wong


2000
Ames
Aroian
Belcher
Burgess
Burke
Cimprich
Coates
Colvin
Cornish
Harper
Jacobsen
Lin
Lyon
Saven
Sorenson
Tolbert


1999
Abu-Omar
Bardwell
Barrick
Feldheim
Hong
Hunter
Lima
Martinez
Nirenberg
O'Doherty
Sasisekharan
Turro
van der Donk
Wang
Wuttke
Zhang


1998
Barron
Bertozzi
Bowman
Brenner
Cohen-Cory
Dan
Deming
Gin
Lonergan
Pogliano
Roberts
Sheets
Smith
Strongin
Tsien
Wandless


1997
Bent
Bredt
Deshaies
Fourkas
Gavis
Hwa
Lee
Nguyen
Rosen
Serafini
Shear
Shi
Strobel
Stuchebrukhov
Tan
Yuste


1996
Breaker
Doudna
Fan
Frydman
Joshua-Tor
Kron
Liu
Lu
Maboudian
Mueller
Nie
Reid
Schafer
Schmidt-Rohr
Schuman
Wente


1995
Allbritton
Baker
Dantus
Foote
Hedstrom
Hines
Hughson
Laibinis
Mahan
Marquesee
Nonet
Palmer
Pavletich
Sita


1994
Kennedy
Kiessling
Marks
Natan
Nowick
Ornitz
Rubin
Scherer
Koo Shin
Silva
Stevens


1993
Carreira
David
Ellman
Field
Griffin
Hecht
Makri
Penner
Piston
Sailor
Schwartz
Sharpe
Strecker
Yu


1992
Anfinrud
Bell
Bianconi
Horne
Kool
Mirkin
Onuchic
Shaka
Therien
Weis
Williams
Yanofsky


1991 Carrasco
Cross
Frostig
Ghadiri
Hanna
Jasin
Kanatzidis
Koshland
Laude
Monnig
Neal
Rowlen

TOP

Heather Carlson, Ph.D.
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Michigan

Title of Research: Incorporating Protein Flexibility and Bioinformatics into Drug Design
Web Site address:
http://www.umich.edu/~pharmacy/MedChem/faculty/carlson/
Email address: carlsonh@umich.edu


David Chan, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
California Institute of Technology

Title of Research: Molecular Dissection of Mitochondrial Fusion
Web Site address:
http://www.biology.caltech.edu/Facultypages/chan.html
Email address: dchan@caltech.edu


Guoping Feng, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University Medical Center

Title of Research: Molecular Architecture of Excitatory Synapses on Interneurons
Web Site address:
http://www.neuro.duke.edu/Faculty/Feng.htm
Email address: feng@neuro.duke.edu


Jason Hafner, Ph.D.
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Rice University

Title of Research: Nano-Wells for Biological Scanning Probe Microscopy
Web Site address:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hafner/HLHafner.htm
Email address: hafner@rice.edu


Shiv Halasyamani, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Houston

Title of Research: New Electro-Photonic Materials for Advanced Optical Applications
Web Site address:
http://www.cmc.uh.edu/Faculty/halasyamani.htm
Email address: psh@uh.edu


Carla Koehler, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles

Title of Research: Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Health and Disease
Web Site address:
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/koehler/

Email address: koehler@chem.ucla.edu


David Liu, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

Title of Research: Evolving Libraries of Non-Natural Synthetic Small Molecules
Web Site address:
http://evolve.harvard.edu
Email address: drliu@fas.harvard.edu


Bingwei Lu, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology
Rockefeller University

Title of Research: A Functional Genomic Approach to Neuronal Subtype Specification and Survival
Web Site address:
http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/abstract.php?id=95
Email address: lub@mail.rockefeller.edu


Daniel Minor, Jr. Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and CVR1
University of California, San Francisco

Title of Research: Discovery of Novel Potassium Channel Modulators by Molecular Evolution
Web Site address:
http://www.cvri.ucsf.edu/~dminor
Email address: minor@itsa.ucsf.edu


Colin Nuckolls, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University

Title of Research: Nanoscale Energy Conversion, Electrical Conduction, and Hierarchical Assembly
Web Site address:
http://research.radlab.columbia.edu/NSEC/team/nuckolls.html
Email address: cn37@columbia.edu

Andrei Sanov, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Arizona

Title of Research: Photoelectron Imaging of Inhomogeneous Cluster Anions
Web Site address:
http://www.chem.arizona.edu/sanov
Email address: sanov@u.arizona.edu


James Schneider, Ph.D.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Research: Novel Nucleic Acid Separations for Microchip Analysis and Plasmid Purification
Web Site address:
http://www.cmu.edu/bme/faculty/schneider.html
Email address: schneider@cmu.edu


Yi Sun, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
University of California, Los Angeles Medical School

Title of Research: A Genetic Approach to Control the Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells
Web Site address:
http://www.mrrc.npi.ucla.edu/ysun/main.htm
Email address: ysun@mednet.ucla.edu


Melody Swartz, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Northwestern University

Title of Research: In Vitro Formation of a Functional Capillary Bed
Web Site address:
http://www.bme.northwestern.edu/faculty/fac_core_swartz.shtml
Email address: m-swartz2@northwestern.edu


Gregory Weiss, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine

Title of Research: Molecular Recognition by Libraries of HIV Nef and Streptavidin
Web Site address:
http://www.chem.uci.edu/~gweiss/
Email address: gweiss@uci.edu


Peidong Yang, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley

Title of Research: Semiconductor Nanowire Arrays
Web Site address:
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~pdygrp/main.html
Email address: Pyang@cchem.berkeley.edu

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