We are delighted to congratulate Prof Sir Keith Burnett, Chair of the Schmidt Science Fellows Academic Council, on his election as President-elect of the Institute of Physics Council. Members of the Institute of Physics come from a vast background across the physics community in academia, industry, technician roles, and more. Sir Keith will be President-elect for … Continued
Peyton Greenside, a Senior Fellow from our 2018 cohort and Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder of BigHat Biosciences, has recently been named as one of the 2021 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley. The annual list is compiled by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Silicon Valley has been an incredible ecosystem both to carry out … Continued
Fellows across all four cohorts have recently been in involved in published work in journals such as Nature, PNAS, Cell, and more. These newly published papers detail work carried out during their Fellowship Research Placement and beyond. Read more to learn about their science and achievements below. Active Particles Crystallize 2019 Fellow, Ahmad Omar, newly announced … Continued
Schmidt Science Fellows has appointed Dr. Renée Hložek to its Academic Council, where she will support the growing Fellowship community by providing tailored and focused mentoring to active Fellows. Dr. Hložek takes up her part-time role with immediate effect. Her appointment grows the Academic Council to five full Members and an Associate Member, each bringing … Continued
Hal Holmes, chief engineer at Conservation X Labs and Fahim Farzadfard, co-founder and chief technology officer of MitoLab, explore the meaning and importance of what it means to collaborate as scientists and truly fight for the public good in an opinion article for The Seattle Times. Their journey began as two members of the inaugural … Continued
Today is World Oceans Day; a time to highlight human impact on the health of our oceans. In recent years, we have become increasingly aware of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that human activity is releasing into the Earth’s atmosphere. What is less well known, is that one third of anthropogenic carbon emissions are … Continued
Announcing the 2021 Cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows
Research published recently in PNAS has demonstrated that machine learning approaches originally developed for analyzing languages, and used by major companies such as Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook to improve customer experiences, can be applied to uncover the molecular principles behind biomolecular condensate formation, a process that is implicated in a vast range of diseases from … Continued
Schmidt Science Fellows has appointed two new members to its Academic Council, which delivers bespoke and highly valued mentoring to every Fellow and acts as an advisory group to the Program’s leadership. The appointments of Dr. Chiara Daraio and Dr. Amy Herr increases the breadth of expertise available to the Schmidt Science Fellows community and … Continued
Dr. Jina Ko, 2018 Fellow, has been named a recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The award supports outstanding postdoctoral researchers in the United States to move from mentored postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. The … Continued