Dr. Michael Guo, postdoctoral research fellow in the Cremins lab, is awarded an NIH R25 physician-scientist research fellowship. Congratulations!
Gabor Egervari, a postdoc in the Berger lab, is the recipient of a K99/R00 transition award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study how alcohol affects epigenetic-metabolic regulation in the brain. Congratulations!
Marco Carpenter, a postdoctoral fellow who will be joining the Heller lab in June 2021, received a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Academic Diversity at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Welcome and congratulations!
Marissa Maroni (NGG graduate student) has joined Erica Korb’s lab. Welcome!
Juan Serrano (Kohli Lab) was awarded an NIH F31 individual fellowship and also given a 2020 Patel Family Scholar Award from the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute. Congratulations!
Nik Evitt (Shi/Kohli labs) was awarded an NIH F30 individual fellowship. Congratulations!
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.
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