In The News
03 July 2024
2024 Innovators and Influencers: Kausik Si, Ph.D.
From In Kansas City Magazine: Meet 10 people, including Stowers Scientific Director Kausik Si, Ph.D., who are making a difference in Kansas City.
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As one year was ending and another was just on the horizon, Stowers Institute and Graduate School leadership announced a series of significant transitions that will play out in full in 2019.
Scientific Director. On July 1, 2019, Stowers and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD, will become the Institute’s new Scientific Director, replacing Robb Krumlauf, PhD, who has served as Scientific Director since the Institute began operations. Investigator Kausik Si, PhD, will take the new position of Associate Scientific Director. Krumlauf will continue to serve as Scientific Director until July 1. Afterward, he will remain at the Institute as an active investigator and Scientific Director Emeritus.
Dean of the Graduate School. At the same time, Investigator Matt Gibson, PhD, will become the Graduate School’s new Dean while Assistant Investigator Sarah Zanders, PhD, will take the new position of Vice Dean. Gibson will replace Investigator Scott Hawley, PhD, who was instrumental in developing and launching the graduate program. Hawley will remain at the Institute as an active investigator and Dean Emeritus.
President and CEO Dave Chao reflects, “Robb and Scott have been with the Institute from its earliest days and have played integral parts in its success. Over almost two decades of service, their exceptional leadership, scientific acumen, scholarship, and collegiality have helped make the Institute and its graduate school a tremendous success. We all look forward to the Institute’s continued success under the dynamic and capable leadership of Alejandro, Kausik, Matt, and Sarah.”
In The News
03 July 2024
From In Kansas City Magazine: Meet 10 people, including Stowers Scientific Director Kausik Si, Ph.D., who are making a difference in Kansas City.
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In The News
08 March 2024
From KSHB, one of the area's top scientists, Kausik Si, Ph.D., from the Stowers Institute received a coveted award for his "paradigm shifting" work to understand how our memory works and how that defines us.
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Press Release
21 February 2024
Scientific Director Kausik Si from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research alongside Investigator Lukasz Joachimiak from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received CZI's Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards grant for their project titled, “Tuning memory by altering amyloids.”
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News
06 October 2023
Forty-nine members reached 20 years of service at the Stowers Institute. The Institute founders, Jim and Virginia Stowers, envisioned establishing the Institute as a long-term investment for advancing foundational knowledge in biology for the benefit of all.
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