Jose Pineda received a graduate fellowship from the ARCS Foundation. Jose is developing new methods to identify RNA splicing branchpoints and studying their roles in intron recognition in normal and diseased cells.
Robert Bradley was named a Scholar of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. This award provides unrestricted funding to support the lab's studies of benign and malignant hematology.
Dylan Udy received a graduate fellowship from the Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant. Dylan proposed to identify cis and trans-acting determinants of RNA degradation mediated by the nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathway.
Qing Feng was named a recipient of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. This award recognizes exceptional scientific achievement during PhD studies in biology. Awardees are selected from graduate students nominated by their host institutions across the US.
Robert Bradley was named a recipient of the newly created President's Young Investigator Award at Fred Hutch. This award provides funding for unrestricted research, which will help the lab to open new research directions such as therapeutic target identification.
