The Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) is a postdoctoral fellowship program, with a mission "to establish partnerships between those who support research in the life sciences and academic institutions for their mutual benefit." The award is one of four highly competitive postdoctoral awards in the life sciences, and was established in 1983 by Donald D. Brown of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Embryology. The Board of DIrectors also includes Douglas Koshland and Solomon H. Snyder. The 56 sponsors include many top companies in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. In 2012, Brown won the Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, in part for his initiation and 30-year dedication to LSRF.
Alumni
Notable alumni include Philip Beachy of Stanford, Ben Barres of Stanford, Yang Dan of UC Berkeley, Miyoung Chun of the Kavli Foundation, George M. Church of Harvard, Jiankang Zhu of Purdue, Gerald F. Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute, and Robert Sapolsky of Stanford.