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.
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.
Linda Zhou, a grad student in the Phillips-Cremins lab, wins the Saul Winegrad award for 2021 best thesis for Penn GCB. Congratulations Linda!
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!
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!
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!
Balint Kacsoh, a postdoc in the Berger lab, took second place in the Annual Biomedical Postdoctoral Symposium poster presentation contest. Congratulations Balint!
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!
Jon Beagan from the Cremins Lab wins the 2020 Sol Pollack award for the PhD thesis representing original research at the forefront of its field. Congratulations!
Connie Jiang, an MD/PhD graduate student in the Raj lab, received an F30 award for her work entitled “Revealing the molecular underpinnings of transcriptional heterogeneity.” Congratulations!