ASCB HALF-CENTURY FUND

Why the ASCB Half-Century Needs Your Support

As the ASCB nears its half-century, the Society needs your help. Won’t you help ensure the next 50 years of continued growth and innovation for cell biology and help sustain the values and programs you cherish? You can join the ASCB Half-Century Society for 2009 by contributing to the Half-Century Fund at whatever level you choose. We appreciate your support! Read more...

NIH Grant Funds New ASCB Image Library

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ARRA Advances Science

Has your lab received funds from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)?

If so, tell your elected officials and neighbors about how ARRA funding helps your community.

Go to www.ascb.org/arra to tell your story.

2009 ANNUAL MEETING

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Blackburn & Greider Awarded Nobel Prize

Two longtime members of the ASCB, Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, and Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, received the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm awarded the Prize for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase." Blackburn is an ASCB past president and E.B. Wilson Medalist. Blackburn and Greider received the Prize with Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School. ASCB congratulates Blackburn, Greider, and Szostak.