The recently unveiled fellows program funds two young scientists researching bioinformatics.
The inaugural fellows are Anat Zimmer, who Ellison calls “brilliant,” and Tomasz Wilmanski, who she said “is an amazing mind.” “It’s so exciting to be part of their lives and help them along in their careers,” she said.
“I am honored and grateful to be a K. Carole Ellison Fellow in Bioinformatics,” said Zimmer. “It provides me the opportunity to be in the right place at the right time to be part of amazing science. Carole is such an inspiring, kind and warm person, and we connected on a personal level. I feel blessed for that.”
“Receiving the K. Carole Ellison Fellowship is a great opportunity, and allows me to bridge my background in nutrition and biology with various computational approaches used at ISB,” said Wilmanski. “It was also a pleasure to thank Carole in person during last week’s reception, and to meet her close friends and family.
While Ellison is responsible for ISB’s first-ever fully funded fellowship, her support of ISB has been steady for years, and was fueled by Hood’s pioneering work in P4 medicine and 21st century health care.
