Congratulations to Gustavo Silva for receiving the CZI Science Diversity and Leadership Award!

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Dr. Gustavo Silva received the prestigious “Science Diversity and Leadership Award” from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative! This award will bring $1.15M for 5 years in research funds and will allow his group to explore the functional ubiquitinome in health and diseases!

“The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative partnered with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to launch the Science Diversity Leadership program, a funding opportunity that aims to recognize and further the leadership of excellent biomedical researchers who — through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership — have a record of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in their scientific fields. Read about the grantees below.”

 

Learn more about all the awardees here:

https://chanzuckerberg.com/science/programs-resources/science-diversity-leadership-awards/

 

CZI awarded 25 investigators nationwide and three of awardees (Silva, Evans, and David) are faculty at Duke! See more details on their research here:

https://today.duke.edu/2022/10/three-25-science-diversity-leadership-awards-come-duke

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/11/02/first-cohort-of-diversity-leadership-awards-named-by-chan-zuckerberg-science-initiative/