Genome Technology Magazine Names Top Young Investigato...( NEW YORK Dec. 17 /- In its second...)

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In its second annual young investigators special issue, Genome Technology magazine has named 31 rising young scientists who are making an impact early in their careers. The issue offers readers a chance to see large-scale biomedical research through the eyes of some of the best and brightest people who are poised to make serious contributions to their areas of interest.

The young investigators were nominated by 28 scientists who are leaders in the field today, including Francis Collins of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Nobel laureate Lee Hartwell of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, George Church of Harvard Medical School, and Jill Mesirov of the Broad Institute.

The 31 up-and-coming young scientists are focused on leading-edge disciplines within molecular biology, including genome sequencing, RNA interference, stem cells, synthetic biology, microarrays, and computational biology.

Here is the roster of this year's honorees, organized geographically:

California

Hooman Allayee, University of Southern California

Gill Bejerano, Stanford University

Amy Kiger, University of California, San Diego

Annie Tsong, University of California, Berkeley

Kun Zhang, University of California, San Diego

Florida

Madhugiri Rao, University of Florida

Indiana

Sarah Trimpin, Indiana University

Maryland

Joshua Mendell, Johns Hopkins University

Heng Zhu, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Massachusetts

Martha Bulyk, Harvard University

Farren Isaacs, Harvard Medical School

Jarrod Marto, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Aviv Regev, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Pardis Sabeti, Harvard University

Michigan

Anuj Kumar, University of Michigan

Jun Li, University of Michigan

Missouri

Vince Magrini, Washington Uni
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