Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund

  • Vanderbilt University

    Ken Lau and Eunyoung Choi named 2024 Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund awardees

    Eunyoung Choi and Ken Lau receive funding for novel cancer research, which may ultimately result in cancer detection and treatment options for patients. The fund supports early-stage, high-risk high-reward research projects and honor Cohen’s seminal discoveries, which led to the invention of many anticancer drugs used today. Read More

    Nov. 21, 2024

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    2024 Call for Applications – Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund

    The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences is soliciting 2024 applications for research awards from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. The Cohen fund supports high-risk, ground-breaking research with the potential to open new fields of scientific inquiry and biomedical impact. Read More

    Jul. 16, 2024

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    Exploring the basics of neurological disorders: Calcium transport in receptors

    Led by Terunaga Nakagawa, an international collaboration describes for the first time the fundamental mechanism underpinning cellular processes that lead to learning and memory. Read More

    Feb. 26, 2024

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    Ken Lau named 2023 Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund Awardee

    Ken Lau, professor of cell and developmental biology, will receive a one-year research award from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. This work will propel Vanderbilt forward as a leader in the field by leveraging novel technology to develop customized sequencing-based assays of cell-associated components at the single-cell resolution. Read More

    Nov. 7, 2023

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    2023 call for applications – Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund

    The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is pleased to solicit faculty applications for research awards from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. The Cohen Fund supports high-risk, groundbreaking research with the potential to open new fields of scientific inquiry and biomedical impact. Initial awards of up to $100,000 (direct costs)… Read More

    May. 18, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Emily Hodges and Terunaga Nakagawa named 2022 Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund recipients

    The Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund provides a yearly award to support innovative and groundbreaking research at Vanderbilt University. This year, after a competitive application process, Emily Hodges, assistant professor of biochemistry, and Terunaga Nakagawa, associate professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, were named as the 2022 recipients. Read More

    Sep. 15, 2022

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    Cohen Innovation Fund Awards Announced Supporting Two High-Risk, High-Reward Projects

    By Aaron Conley Stanley Cohen and Vanderbilt Chancellor Joe Wyatt (1986). Houra Merrikh, professor of biochemistry, and Teru Nakagawa, associate professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, have both been selected to receive one-year research awards from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund. The awards will support groundbreaking and… Read More

    Sep. 28, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    New fund honors spirit of Cohen’s innovative research

    When Tom Daniel, M.D., joined the Vanderbilt University faculty in December 1986, Stanley Cohen, Ph.D., had just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of epidermal growth factor (EGF). “Stanley was part of the reason I came to Vanderbilt,” said Daniel, who recently retired as… Read More

    Aug. 25, 2016