Matthew Bogyo, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, was named a 2004 Searle Scholar, one among only 15 nationwide. The Searle program supports independent research of young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry. Bogyo will receive a three-year grant of $240,000 beginning in July for “Design of small molecule activity probes to identify serine proteases of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.” An MIT graduate (1997) and scientific consultant with Celera and Proteolix, he joined the Stanford faculty last July.

Irving L. Weissman, MD, the Karel and Avice Beekhuis
Professor of Cancer Biology, was named recipient of the Third Annual Alan Cranston Award by the Alliance for Aging Research. The award honors Weissman's commitment to healthy aging, leadership in biotechnology and work to accelerate research on diseases of aging such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's. The alliance noted his help leading the fight for policies to allow stem cell research to advance. Weissman, professor of pathology, developmental biology and, by courtesy, of biological sciences, will receive the award, named for the late U.S. senator and advocate for biomedical research and healthy aging, at the alliance's gala April 1 in San Francisco.