Congratulations Yanxiang Deng!

Congratulations Yanxiang Deng, 2023 Blavatnik Regional Award Laureate!

Congratulations to Yanxiang Deng, PhD, who has been awarded the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists in the Life Science category.

Dr. Deng was recognized for developing a novel microfluidic method for “spatial-omics” to profile expression of RNA, proteins, and epigenetic markers across spatially organized groups of cells in tissues. Deng’s work has allowed us to construct a map of how RNA, proteins, and epigenetic markers are expressed across groups of cells with respect to cells’ relative positions. This work provides critical insight about how cells in different regions change their behavior during processes like development and disease.

The Blavatnik Regional Awards acknowledge and celebrate the excellence of outstanding postdoctoral scientists from institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry.

Click here to learn more about the Blavatnik Awards.

Click here to visit the Deng Lab website.

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Congratulations to our 2024 Epigenetics Institute At-Large Pilot Grant Awardees!

The Penn Epigenetics Institute is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2024 At-Large Pilot Grants. Since 2013, these pilot grants have supported new research projects across a broad spectrum of topics, from those that involve fundamental studies in epigenetics to more applied or disease-oriented studies that utilize epigenetics as a central component of the research. We were grateful to receive a number of high-quality applications this year, and we are looking forward to seeing the results of the funded projects.

New Awards:

Liling Wan, PhD & Eric Joyce, PhD: “Drugging oncogenic condensates using high-throughput chemical and imagine screens”

Yanxiang Deng, PhD: “Spatial Epigenome Sequencing at Tissue Scale and Cellular Level”

Renewal Awards:

George Burslem, PhD & Andrey Poleshko, PhD: “Unbiased Probe Discovery for Epigenetics Reprogramming”

Erica Korb, PhD & George Burslem, PhD: “Developing tools to examine the role and regulation of histone crotonylation in the brain”

Golnaz Vahedi receives a W. W. Smith Charitable Trust Research Award

Golnaz Vahedi recently received a W. W. Smith Charitable Trust Research Award – congratulations!

The W. W. Smith Charitable Trust funds basic science research in the areas of heart disease, cancer and AIDS. The philosophy of the Trust has been not to replicate governmental funding organizations, but identify and fund projects that are unique and meritorious. The Trust tries to select promising researchers that have the potential to attract the National Institutes of Health, or other large funding organizations after the Trusts support. There is a strong commitment to encourage new or less recognized investigators to apply for funding. Learn more here.

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