Marisa Bartolomei has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations Marisa!
Ken Zaret was elected as a 2021 fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Congratulations Ken!
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!
Anna Kiseleva, postdoc in the Epstein lab, is the recipient of an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship for her grant entitled Hdac3 loss induces changes in the chromatin organization leading to cardiac failure associated with a high-fat diet. Congratulations Anna!
Wonho Kim, postdoc in the Jain lab, is the recipient of an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship for his grant entitled BRD4-mediated genome folding in smooth muscle cell differentiation. Congratulations Wonho!
Paula Agudelo Garcia (postdoc in the Berger lab, grant co-mentored by E. John Wherry) is the recipient of an NRSA F32 Fellowship to study how metabolism regulates the epigenetic landscape in T cell exhaustion. Congratulations!
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!
Kiara Rodriguez-Acevedo, who attended the SUIP program last summer in the Korb lab and will be joining Penn as a CAMB graduate student this fall, was awarded the NSF graduate research fellowship. Congratulations Kiara!