Shelley Berger was elected as a 2021 fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research. Congratulations Shelley!
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.
Dr. Elizabeth Heller was recently awarded a research grant award from the SynGAP Research Fund to support her lab’s work in epigenetic regulation of SynGAP1-related intellectual disability. With the SynGAP Research Fund’s award to support a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, Dr. Heller and her team will work to uncover druggable targets that could be used to develop a treatment for this rare genetic disorder. Congratulations, Dr. Heller, and many thanks to the team at the SynGAP Research Fund!
Learn more about the SynGAP Research Fund here.
Elizabeth Heller has received U18 funding from the NIH -NIDA Step Up for Substance Use Disorders (SUD): A Drug Target Initiative for Scientists Engaged in Fundamental Research, to study Nr4a1 as a target gene in cocaine use disorder. Congratulations!
Ken Zaret is featured in the newly posted episode “Pioneer Transcription Factors and Their Influence on Chromatin Structure”
Shelley Berger is featured in an episode from last year, “Epigenetic Mechanisms of Aging and Longevity”
You can find both podcasts here (Episodes 15 and 34): https://www.activemotif.com/podcasts
Golnaz Vahedi has received U01 funding from the NIH to study transcriptomic and epigenomic of T cells in type 1 diabetes. Penn faculty John Wherry is a co-PI on this grant. Congratulations!
Hongjun Song has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Congratulations Hongjun!