Alex Shalek Named 2015 NIH Director’s New Innovator Awardee

Alex Shalek Named 2015 NIH Director’s New Innovator Awardee

Oct 06, 2015

On October 6th, in a press release by issued the NIH, Alex Shalek was named as one of the recipients of the prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Part of the Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the New Innovator Award supports exceptionally creative, early-career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects.  Alex and the lab are honored to receive this […]

Alex Shalek Named 2015 Beckman Young Investigator

Alex Shalek Named 2015 Beckman Young Investigator

Aug 07, 2015

Alex Shalek has been chosen as one of the eight young faculty members around the US to be awarded a Beckman Young Investigators Prize. The Beckman Young Investigators Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences particularly to […]

Shalek Lab visits Durban

Shalek Lab visits Durban

Jul 07, 2015

With the generous support of a MISTI grant from MIT, the Shalek Lab had the opportunity to visit collaborators at the Kwazulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) in Durban, South Africa during the last week of June. The group met with professors Al Leslie and Thumbi Ndung’u and their labs to discuss current and […]

Alex Shalek Named 2015 Searle Scholar

Alex Shalek Named 2015 Searle Scholar

Apr 15, 2015

Alex Shalek has been named as a 2015 Searle Scholar! Searle Scholar funding will generously support the Shalek Lab for the next three years. Alex would like to thank the Searle Scholars Program for their support. Find out more about Searle Scholars Program and see the other winners here.