Research Highlights
Research Highlights
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"2021 University Research Award" Recipients in Pediatrics!
The University Research Awards (URA) provide “seed” grants for promising, high-risk projects, says Robert Clark, provost and senior vice president for research. Recipients must demonstrate that their projects favor new research with a high probability of being leveraged by future external funding. This year’s recipients included 3 groups in Pediatrics. Read more about the URAs.
- Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo, and, Erin Davis, Ph.D., Prenatal effect in the development of anti-allergic immunity
- Lynne Maquat, Ph.D., Chris Pröschel and Hitomi Sakano, Targeting nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in Fragile X Syndrome
- Regina Rowe, M.D., Ph.D., Julian Meeks,Ph.D., Thomas Mariani, Ph.D., Regulation of immune responses by olfactory chemosensory neurons
- May. 3, 2021 - Lynne Maquat Wins Warren Alpert Foundation Prize - for her pivotal discoveries in the field of RNA biology.
- 2021 - URMC Professor Elected to Lead Prestigious Research Society -
Kate G. Ackerman, M.D., has been named president-elect of the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR).