Arjun Raj, PhD, Awarded George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research

Congratulations to Core Member Arjun Raj, PhD, who was recently awarded the 2023-24 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research! He was selected for this award to recognize his work “pioneering the development and application of single-cell, cancer-fighting technologies.”

The Heilmeier Award honors a Penn Engineering faculty member whose work is scientifically meritorious and has high technological impact and visibility.

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Congratulations Rexxi Prasasya, PhD, K99 Pathway to Independence Award Recipient

Congratulations to Rexxi Prasasya, PhD, who has been awarded a K99 Pathway to Independence Award. Dr. Prasasya, a Research Associate in the Bartolomei Lab, received this award for her project titled “Molecular determinants of sex-specific DNA methylation signature acquisition in the mammalian germline.”

She plans to use this award to continue her research into elucidating how the most sexually dimorphic epigenetic marks, DNA methylation, is established in the germ cells. Aberrant DNA methylation in gametes is associated with idiopathic infertility, poorer outcomes during fertility treatment, and can be deleterious to early embryonic development. Using various mouse genetic models, Dr. Prasasya will be investigating intracellular and extracellular cues that instruct the patterning of DNA methylation in oocytes and sperm.

Ashley Karnay (Jain lab) awarded F31 grant

Ashley Karnay (CAMB graduate student in the Jain lab) was recently awarded an F31 for her proposal entitled “Deciphering the Molecular Orchestrators of Heterochromatin-Lamina Interactions at the Nuclear Periphery.” Her proposal was co-sponsored by Rajan Jain and Arjun Raj. Congratulations Ashley!

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