Profiles of Biomedical Researchers

Article December 5, 2014 Read time:

Projects: Pew Biomedical Scholars, Pew Latin American Fellows & Pew Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research

Since 1985, Pew's biomedical programs have provided funding to hundreds of beginning researchers who show outstanding promise in science with the potential to advance human health. The exceptional research of the scholars and fellows has earned them Nobel Prizes, Lasker Awards, MacArthur Genius Awards and other distinctions. Here are their stories:

Learn more about Nels Elde, this month's Featured Biomedical Researcher.

Nels Elde	Profile: Nels Elde 2012 Pew Biomedical Scholar Nels Elde quotes Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass: “It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” Watch Elde's story.
Esteban Engel	Profile: Esteban Engel 2011 Pew Latin American Fellow "This is a great deal of help, especially early on, when it is hard to get competitive grants." Read Engel's story.
Mary Gehring	Profile: Mary Gehring 2011 Pew Biomedical Scholar "I got really excited about the genetics that were underlying what you could see when plants grew and developed." Read Gehring's story.
Gary H. Gibbons, M.D	Video Profile: Gary H. Gibbons, M.D. 1994 Pew Biomedical Scholar "The Pew approach recognized that what they were really funding was a promising scholar." Watch Gibbons' story.
Jeff Gore	Profile: Jeff Gore 2001 Pew Biomedical Scholar "I realized there were a lot of beautiful questions to ask." Read Gore's story.
Carol Greider	Video Profile: Carol Greider 1990 Pew Biomedical Scholar "The Pew Scholars had a major role in my career." Watch Greider's story.
Mike Kuhns	Video Profile: Mike Kuhns 2011 Pew Biomedical Scholar “Pew support allows you to explore and take risks.” Watch Kuhns' story.
Erica Larschan	Profile: Erica Larschan, 2011 Pew Biomedical Scholar “Larschan's work has already distinguished her as a scientific pioneer…” Read Larschan's story.
Carolyn Machamer	Profile: Carolyn Machamer 1990 Pew Biomedical Scholar “The beauty of research is that it teaches us things we never set out to learn.” Read Machamer's story.
Natalia Martin	Profile: Natalia Martin 2012 Pew Latin American Fellow “Doing science in the U.S. sometimes seems limitless.” Watch Martin's story.
Ann Morris	Profile: Ann Morris, 2011 Pew Biomedical Scholar “I believe in the power of studying animals that can naturally accomplish what we want to do therapeutically in humans.” Read Morris' story.
Aimee Shen	Profile: Aimee Shen, 2012 Pew Biomedical Scholar “Pew has empowered me and inspired me to enter a field that I wasn't established in.” Watch Shen's story.
Benjamin tenOever	Video Profile: Benjamin tenOever 2008 Pew Biomedical Scholar "We're trying to understand how a virus works." Watch tenOever's story.
Kathryn E. Wellen, Ph.D.	Video Profile: Kathryn E. Wellen 2012 Pew Biomedical Scholar "I'm really excited for the opportunity to meet and interact with the other Pew Scholars." Watch Wellen's story.