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In 1994 the MCB established the Byron Prize in honor of Dr. Fred Byron, Vice Chancellor for Research at UMass Amherst. Dr. Byron was instrumental in establishing the MCB program, and showed great vision and support of both research and graduate education throughout his career at UMass.Each fall, students who defended their theses in the previous year can be nominated for the prize by their thesis advisors. The winner is brought back to UMass in the spring to present a talk at the MCB Retreat and receives a cash prize of $1,000. Prize selection is made by the MCB Steering Committee, which has established the following criteria:Originality and creativity of the research
Impact: significance in the field
Scope of the research project
Scope of techniques used to solve the problem
Quality of writing
Contributions to the MCB program
Previous Prize Winners:
| 2007 | Kelly Gauger (Zoeller Lab) | Ph.D. 2006 |
| 2006 | Nasser Rusan (Wadsworth Lab) Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill nasser@email.unc.edu |
Ph.D. 2005 |
| 2005 | Jeremy Smyth (Fissore Lab) Postdoctoral Fellow, NIEHS, NIH smythj@niehs.nih.gov |
Ph.D. 2004 |
| 2004 | Heather Thompson (Scordilis Lab) | Ph.D. 2003 |
| 2003 | Thomas King (Fournier Lab) Sequitur, Inc |
Ph.D. 2002 |
| 2002 | John Wing (Nambu Lab) Principal Research Investigator, OSE Eyetech John.Wing@eyetech.com |
Ph.D. 2000 |
| 2001 | Amy Dowling (Zoeller Lab) | Ph.D. 2000 |
| 2000 | Kevin Keith (Fitzgerald-Hayes Lab) | Ph.D. 1999 |
| 1999 | Marie (Sanchirico) Comeaux (Mason Lab) | Ph.D. 1998 |
| 1998 | Rebecca (Bryant) Roberts (Hansen Lab) Assistant Professor, Ursinus College rroberts@ursinus.edu |
Ph.D. 1998 |
| 1997 | Wen-Qing Liang (Fournier Lab) | Ph.D. 1997 |
| 1996 | Sam Stoler (Fitzgerald-Hayes Lab) | |
| 1995 | Chin Pan (Mason Lab) | Ph.D. 1994 |
| 1994 | My Mahoney (Slakey Lab) | Ph.D. 1993 |
| 1994 | William Payne (Fitzgerald-Hayes Lab) | Ph.D. 1993 |