{"id":10107,"date":"2016-04-26T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/?p=10107"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:15:20","slug":"congratulations-biochemistry-russek-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/2016\/04\/26\/congratulations-biochemistry-russek-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Biochemistry Russek Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote type=\"cite\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote type=\"cite\">\n<div lang=\"EN-US\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\">\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>The Henry I Russek Award Nominating Committee and the Executive Committee certainly had a tough time choosing this year&#8217;s winners as the competition was keen. \u00a0We want to start by thanking the nominating committee for their efforts; Dr. Costello, Dr. Farmer, Dr. Kandror, Dr. Pilch and Dr. Schreiber. \u00a0Importantly, we want to thank all of applicants for their contributions and we look forward to seeing their work displayed on Russek Day. \u00a0<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>Now for the\u00a0Department of Biochemistry&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"apple-style-span\">winners of the Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day 2016;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span>the third prize was awarded to Carly Cederquist, who is a student in Dr. Perissi&#8217;s lab;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span>the second prize was awarded to\u00a0Kshitij Khatri, who is a student in Dr. Zaia&#8217;s lab;\u00a0the first prize was awarded to Aleks Szymaniak, who is a student in Dr. Varelas&#8217;s lab\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0Our congratulations go out to all of the winners as well as their advisors! \u00a0<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>So, we&#8217;ll see you all on Friday, May 6th in Hiebert Lounge for\u00a0Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day 2016.\u00a0 For those of you who have never attended, this is a day devoted to our graduate students, with presentations from students throughout the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences. \u00a0For those of you who have attended before, you know what&#8217;s in store, and for the newcomers, I assure you that you won&#8217;t be disappointed as Dr. Russek and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences always plan a great day. \u00a0<span class=\"apple-style-span\">Thanks to the generous contributions of Dr. Russek and her family, the event promises to be a memorable one with the keynote address to be delivered by\u00a0<\/span>Dr. James\u00a0Bradner, President of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Henry I Russek Award Nominating Committee and the Executive Committee certainly had a tough time choosing this year&#8217;s winners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}