Faculty Awards – Penn Epigenetics

14Aug

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.

25Jul

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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”

9Mar

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Marisa Bartolomei, PhD, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, Co-Director of the Epigenetics Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Society for the Study of Reproduction Award!

Please find the announcement here!

6Oct

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Liling Wan receives NIH DP2 New Innovator Award

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!

6Oct

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Erica Korb receives NIH DP2 New Innovator Award

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!

5Oct

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Jennifer Phillips-Cremins receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

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!

6Apr

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Rajan Jain receives 2021 Seldin~Smith Award for Pioneering Research

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!

28Mar

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Irfan Asangani receives Department of Defense Idea Expansion Award

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!

28Mar

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Irfan Asangani receives Conquer Cancer Now Award

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!

4Dec

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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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