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Dr. Samantha Morris has received 3 new awards

Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Morris, Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics, on her three new awards!

Two year $183,334 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative award as a sub-agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital beginning July 1, 2019 for her project entitled “Single-cell resolution of cell lineages and states based on chromatin accessibility combined with CellTagging or somatic mutations”.

Three year $500,000 Children’s Discovery Institute award through the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation beginning October 1, 2019 for her project entitled “Deconstructing the etiology of Hirschsprung Disease via single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics”.

Three year $1,500,000 Allen Distinguished Investigators Award through the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group beginning  October 1, 2019 for her project entitled “Reading and writing cell histories: New genomic technologies to unlock cell programming”.