Career Development Awards

The Center for Biomedical Discovery Career Development Award is designed to support investigators beginning their academic careers in a discovery science field.

The three-year award helps build the discovery faculty of the future by supporting the efforts of exceptional young scientists performing hypothesis-driven research studying biochemical, molecular or cellular mechanisms of disease.

Three Mayo Clinic investigators were selected to receive the Center for Biomedical Discovery 2017 Career Development Award:

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  Verline Justilien, Ph.D.

  • Cancer Biology
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  Ian R. Lanza, Ph.D.

  • Endocrinology
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  Jian Yuan, Ph.D.

  • Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics