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Liling Wan was recently awarded an NIH DP2 New Innovator Award for her work titled Illuminating Transcriptional Condensates Using an Integrated Approach. You can learn more here. Congratulations Liling!
Erica Korb was recently awarded an NIH DP2 New Innovator Award for her work titled The Epigenetic Encoding of Learning and Memory. You can learn more here. Congratulations Erica!
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins was recently awarded an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for her work titled From 3D Genomes to Neural Connectomes: Higher-Order Chromatin Mechanisms Encoding Long-Term Memory. You can read more here. Congratulations Jenn!
Rajan Jain, MD is the recipient of the 2021 Donald Seldin~Holly Smith Award for Pioneering Research from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Dr. Jain will receive an unrestricted award of $30,000 to advance his academic efforts and will deliver a scientific talk at the 2022 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting. Read more here. Congratulations Raj!
Irfan Asangani was recently awarded a Department of Defense Idea Expansion Award (2021-2024) for his proposal entitled “PP2A activation as a therapy for AR addicted refractory castration-resistant prostate cancer.” Congratulations Irfan!
Irfan Asangani was recently awarded the Conquer Cancer Now Award 2020-2022 from Concern Foundation for his grant entitled “Towards understanding and targeting transcriptional addiction in advanced prostate cancer.” Read more here – congratulations Irfan!
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.
Roberto Bonasio is a recipient of the 2020 Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for his outstanding research in the field of epigenetics. Congratulations Roberto!
Ben Garcia has been selected to receive the HUPO Discovery in Proteomics Science Award. Congratulations!