JBC names 2021 Tabor young investigators
The Journal of Biological Chemistry has named the winners of the 2021 JBC Herbert Tabor Early Career Investigator Awards. The awards, named after the late editor-in-chief of the journal, recognize early-career scientists with standout first-author papers published in the past year.
A committee of JBC associate editors, headed up by George DeMartino of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, selected the five winners after reviewing nominations from JBC readers, consulting experts in the field and evaluating the quantitative impact of the papers.
The winners will give talks at the 2021 ASBMB Annual Meeting, which will take place virtually April 27–30.
Tabor award winners from 2020, whose talks were postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, also will present their work at the 2021 meeting.
The winners and their papers are below.
2021 winners
, graduate student at San Diego State University
- Paper:
, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder
- Paper:
, graduate student at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute.
- Paper:
, graduate student at Philipps–University Marburg
- Paper:
- Editors’ Pick Highlight:
, graduate student at Harvard University
- Paper:
- Editors’ Pick Highlight:
2020 winners
, graduate student at Amity Institute of Biotechnology
- Paper:
- Editors’ Pick Highlight:
- ASBMB Today profile: Dagar dissects a prostate cancer driver
, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo
- Paper:
, research associate at Washington State University
- Paper:
- ASBMB Today profile: Varghese roams from forests to enzymes
, instructor at Weill Cornell Medicine
- Paper:
- ASBMB Today profile: Yang follows the science where it takes her
, graduate student at the University of Bonn
- Editor’s Pick Highlight:
- ASBMB Today profile: Selenium led Zhao from icy hometown to German hospitality
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