The 2024 recipients of the Pew Award, from left to right: Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, PhD; Justin Eyquem, PhD; and Jovanka Gencel-Augusto, PhD. Photos by Susan Merrell
Three UC San Francisco scientists have received 2024 Pew awards to fund their research in neuroscience and cancer.
They include a cognitive scientist, Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, PhD, who is challenging the reigning theory of learning; Justin Eyquem, PhD, a bioengineer who aims to build cancer-fighting cell therapies from within a person’s body; and Jovanka Gencel-Augusto, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar from Peru who is studying cancer genetics.