Keck Foundation funds three innovative early-career Salk projects

  • Highlights
  • W. M. Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative grants $600,000 to Salk scientist, graduate student pairings
  • The three teams will each tackle their own projects, spanning cancer, neuroscience, and genetics
  • The grants accelerate high-risk, high-reward science that otherwise would be difficult to pursue in today’s science funding landscape

LA JOLLA—Three Salk faculty members, Sung Han, PhD, Daniel Hollern, PhD, and Graham McVicker, PhD, have been chosen as Keck Scholars, alongside corresponding graduate students as Keck Fellows, in a special W. M. Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative. The Initiative comes as the Keck Foundation seeks to support early-career scientists amid federal funding uncertainty.

The funding is specifically designated to support promising graduate student and faculty pairings in California, with the goal of ensuring early- to mid-career scientists get the training and resources they need to become…
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