Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
FormationJune 11, 1937
FounderStarling Winston Childs & Alice S. Childs
TypeMedical and related sciences research

The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (the "JCC"), established in 1937,[1] awards the "Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship" for research in the medical and related sciences bearing on cancer.

History

The Fund was founded on June 11, 1937, by Starling Winston Childs and Alice S. Childs, in memory of Jane Coffin Childs. Its funds have been on the order of $3 million.[2]

Description

Currently, the Foundation awards 20 to 30 fellowships per year. The fellowship is regarded as one of the most prestigious fellowships in the US, and postdoctoral candidates are awarded with a three-year support. The researchers and the research labs where the fellows conduct their projects have made major scientific contributions in areas such as the advancement of understanding the human genome, and the application of genetic approaches to understanding pathway regulation, and stem cell activation. There are nearly two dozen individuals associated with the Fund—as grantees, fellows, and advisers—have won Nobel Prizes in physiology, medicine, and chemistry.

Over the years, the Fund has attracted distinguished scientists for its Board of Scientific Advisers. As of 2020, 17 of the former Board members have earned the Nobel Prize.[3]

Members of the Board of Scientific Advisers have included:

The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research is dedicated to providing financial support to offer highly qualified scientists the opportunity to pursue research into the causes and origins of cancer. The goal of the Fund is to provide support to the brightest individual scientists pursuing careers in cancer research while promoting and emphasizing the value and contribution of the individual in keeping with the spirit of the conception of the Fund.

Notable fellows have included:[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "About the Fund", Yale University (last visited 2009 May 8).
  2. ↑ Yale University (1937). Report of the Treasurer of Yale University, with the Accounts of Its Several Departments.
  3. ↑ "About the Fund". Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. ↑ See JCCNewsletter, including lists of fellows.
  5. ↑ Fee, Elizabeth; Rodman, Anne Clark (October 1985). "Janet Howell Clark: Physiologist and Biophysicist (1889-1969)". The Physiologist. 28 (5): 397–400.
  6. ↑ "Jessica Polka - Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund". Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
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