Medical Research & Talent|April 5, 2025
UCSF’s Dr. Stephen Hauser has received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his transformative work on multiple sclerosis. His discovery of B cells as key drivers of the disease led to highly effective therapies now used worldwide, redefining MS treatment and improving outcomes for countless patients.
Medical Research & Talent|March 20, 2025
Every Cure is harnessing artificial intelligence to expedite drug repurposing efforts, aiming to uncover new treatments for rare diseases. By analyzing existing medications, they seek to identify potential new applications, offering hope to patients with limited treatment options.
Medical Research & Talent|January 17, 2023
Sometimes research takes scientists to unexpected places, even alpaca farms. Tobiloba Oni is one of two Valhalla Fellows at Whitehead Institute who are researching ways to harness our natural defenses to combat cancer, an approach called immunotherapy.
Medical Research & Talent|December 8, 2022
Using new machine learning techniques, researchers at at the Cell Design Institute at UCSF, in collaboration with a team at IBM Research, have developed a virtual molecular library of thousands of “command sentences” for cells, based on combinations of “words” that guided engineered immune cells to seek out and tirelessly kill cancer cells.
Medical Research & Talent|September 16, 2022
A new study published by the International MS Microbiome Study Consortium links gut bacteria to MS susceptibility, severity and treatment.
Medical Research & Talent|September 12, 2022
Biochemist Lindsey Backman, who studies the structure and function of proteins in microbial organisms, is the newest member of the Whitehead Fellows Program.
Medical Research & Talent|April 6, 2022
This year’s Scientific Breakthrough Award, funded by the American Brain Foundation, has been awarded to Stephen Hauser, MD, for helping to understand the genetic basis, immune processes, and treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). The award recognizes the work of an individual or a team whose research has contributed to advances in the care of people living with MS or another neurological disease.
Medical Research & Talent|November 17, 2021
Dr. Tobiloba Oni has leveraged Valhalla Foundation's support to secure additional funding to fight pancreatic cancer from the Emerald Foundation, the Hirshberg Foundation, Break Through Cancer, and the US Department of Defense.
Medical Research & Talent|October 15, 2021
Kipp Weiskopf—who is identifying ways to prompt macrophages to fight cancer—has been named a Valhalla Fellow.
Medical Research & Talent|September 2, 2021
Kristin Knouse joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) faculty as an assistant professor of biology and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer. As a Scott Cook and Signe Ostby Fellow at the Whitehead Institute since 2018, Knouse worked to understand how tissues sense and respond to damage.