Turkish scientist's discovery of how pro...( Diseases. Hanayama was born in 1974 an...)

Diseases." Hanayama was born in 1974 and grew up in Osaka, Japan. He obtained a medical degree from Osaka University in 1999. After a year as a medical intern, he decided to pursue basic research and joined the laboratory of Shigekazu Nagata as a graduate student. There he identified a molecule that promotes the phagocytosis of apoptotic cells and showed that the inefficient removal of the apoptotic cells can lead to autoimmune diseases. Hanayama was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2002 and received his Ph.D. degree and the Yamamura Award from Osaka University in 2004. After working as an instructor in genetics with Nagata, he joined the laboratory of Michael E. Greenberg at Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School with a long-term postdoctoral fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program.

Jianmin Zhang (All Other Countries): For his essay, "Establishment of Transcriptional Competence in Early and Late S Phase." Zhang was born in Tianjin, Peoples Republic of China. After graduating from Tianjin Medical University, he worked as a research associate at Tianjin Infectious Diseases Hospital. In 1996, he began graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he first obtained a masters of science degree under the guidance of Hagai Ginsburg in the Department of Biological Chemistry and then joined Howard Cedars lab at the Hadassah Medical School. Life in a foreign country was made easier by the support he received from Cedar. His studies on gene repression suggested a mechanistic connection between DNA replication timing and gene expression. Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 and was awarded the Aharon Katzir Prize. He is a postdoctoral fellow in Daniel Habers laboratory at the Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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9-Feb-2006

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