Irene Chen Wins Grand Prize for the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists
 
Irene Chen, Harvard MD-PhD class of 2007, was awarded the Grand Prize for her paper on "The Emergence of Cells During the Origin of Life". She received the award and the $25,000 prize money from Peter Ehrenheim, President of GE Healthcare Life Sciences and Monica Bradford, executive editor of the journal Science. The GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists was established twelve years ago by GE Healthcare, formerly Pharmacia, and Science Magazine together with its parent organization/publisher AAAS to help bring science to life by recognizing outstanding PhDs from around the world and rewarding their research in the field of molecular biology. The prizes were awarded at Stockholm's Grand Hotel, the venue of the original Nobel Prize ceremony in 1901, on December 11, 2006.