Many thanks to the National Science Foundation for awarding the lab a 5-year CAREER Grant. These funds will support our ongoing work to untangle ribosome biogenesis, as well as some of our mass spectrometry and cryo-EM methods development efforts.
Equally importantly, we have allocated funds from this grant to form better collaborations with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, including Howard University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Spellman College, and to recruit talented Black scientists to MIT for our summer MSRP program. I am incredibly grateful to professors Kimberly Jackson, Misty Thomas, Bertina Telusma, and Mandana Sassanfar for their help in putting this program together.