Ankur Jain ('07) awarded Packard Foundation Fellowship
MIT News (October 21, 2019)
Whitehead Institute member and assistant professor of biology receives one of the most prestigious non-governmental awards for early-career scientists
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that Ankur Jain ('07), Whitehead Institute member and assistant professor of biology at MIT, has been named a Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering. The Packard Foundation Fellowships are one of the most prestigious and well-funded non-governmental awards for early-career scientists.
Each year, the foundation invites 50 university presidents to nominate two early-career professors each from their institutions; from those 100 nominees, an advisory panel of distinguished scientists and engineers select the fellows, who receive individual grants of $875,000 over five years. The 2019 class comprises 22 fellows. (Read More)