Understanding and Exploiting the Heterogeneity of Cell Intrinsic and Extrinsic Responses to DNA Damage in BRCA Mutant Cancer Cells
V Foundation Convergence Team Science Award
Susan Domchek, Ronny Drapkin, Andy Minn, and Junwei Shi
Calling him “an outstanding, pioneering investigator,” the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has honored Jonathan Epstein of the Perelman School of Medicine with an Outstanding Investigator Award. The prize will support his research to uncover how a fertilized egg gives rise to a diversity of specialized tissues in the body.
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Awarded a Pilot and Feasibility Grant from the NIH P30-funded Penn Skin Biology and Disease Resource-based Center (SBDRC), “Understanding the role of KMT2D and KMT2C in epithelial differentiation and carcinogenesis”.
Mia Levine awarded the NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) (R35), “Causes and functional consequences of chromatin evolution.”
Arjun Raj awarded a Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Human Cell Atlas Grant, “Accelerating tools and technologies for imaging approaches to perform spatial genomics on intact tissues”
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Hao Wu of the Perelman School of Medicine has received the New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health. With this grant, the Wu lab aims to study the molecular mechanisms governing the environment-epigenome interactions in these cells by developing “oxygen-sensing” epigenome analysis and editing tools.
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Kavitha Sarma, Ph.D. NIH awarded the Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2) for her research on “Epigenetic regulation through the formation and resolution of R loops.”
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Marisa Bartolomei and Rebecca Simmons Awarded R01!
Project Title: Preconception phthalate exposure and offspring outcomes
Grant Type: R01
Sponsor: NIEHS (r01es028206)
Dates: 9/1/2017 to 8/31/2022
Marisa Bartolomei Awarded R01!
Project Title: Long-term physiological and behavioral outcomes, epigenetic profiles and multigenerational phenotypes in a mouse art model
Grant Type: R01
Sponsor: NICHD (r01hd092266)
Dates: 8/15/2017 to 4/30/2022
Maya Capelson Awarded R01!
Project Title: Nuclear Pore Complexes As Scaffolds For Genome Architecture And Epigenetic Maintenance
Grant Type: R01
Sponsor: NIGMS/NIH
Dates: 09/2017-08/2022