Congratulations to Dr. Sam Morris! Sam Morris, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics, has received a five-year $1,951,525 grant award from the NIH/ NIGMS beginning March 5th, 2024 for her project entitled “Decoding the Molecular Mechanisms Governing Regulation and Reprogramming of Cellular Identity”.
Congratulations to Dr. Liz Pollina! Liz Pollina, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, has received an 18-month $100,000 grant award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative beginning March 1, 2024 for her project entitled “Transcriptional and epigenetic encoding of sleep loss”.
Congratulations to Dr. Sam Morris! Sam Morris, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics, has received a four-year $2,013,440 grant award from the NIH/ NIDDK beginning March 15th, 2024 for her project entitled “Decoding the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Reprogramming to Functional Hepatic and Intestinal Cell Types”
Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Johnson! Aaron Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a one-year $40,000 grant award from the Musculoskeletal Research Center beginning April 1, 2024 for his project entitled “Mechanisms of systemic muscle repair”.
Congratulations to Vishnu Saraswathy and Yuxiao Xu! Vishnu Saraswathy, Posdoc in Mayssa Mokalled’s Lab, and Yuxiao Xu, Graduate Research Assistant in Mayssa Mokalled’s Lab, have been named as two of the 2024 Hope Center Awards winners
Congratulations to Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, former Chair of the Department of Developmental Biology! Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, Dr. Robert Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of the Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2024 Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science […]
Congratulations to Farshid Guilak, PhD., Mildred B Simon Research Professor of Orthopardic Surgery and Co-Director of the Center of Regenerative Medicine Washington University School of Medicine researchers, including Farshid Guilak, PhD, (left) and Christine T. N. Pham, MD, have received an award of up to $31 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health […]
Congratulations to Ena Haseljic! Ena Haseljic, Pre Doc Trainee in Dr. Liz Pollna’s Lab, has received the 2023 Tanaka Graduate Student Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Kentaro Mori, Komal Kaushik, and Blerta Stringa! The Department of Developmental Biology 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow Seed of Independence Grant has been awarded to Kentaro Mori (Imai Lab), Komal Kaushik (Kroll Lab), and Blerta Stringa (Solnica-Krezel Lab)
Congratulations to Dr. Liz Pollina! Liz Pollina, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology has been awarded a one-year $50,000 award beginning October 1, 2023 for her project entitled “Neuronal Activity-Dependent DNA Repair in Healthy Aging”, from the Longer Life Foundation