Moorman-Simon Fellowship 2019-2020

Moorman-Simon Fellowships in Computational Biomedicine

The Moorman-Simon Fellowship in Computational Biomedicine was established in the summer of 2019 to provide fellowships, one year in duration to current Ph.D. students in Computational Biomedicine who are working in the field of cancer research.  This fund was established through a generous gift by Trustee Ruth A. Moorman (CAS’88, Wheelock’89,’09, Parent BUA’15) and Sheldon N. Simon.

Recipients:
AY 2019-2020

Project Title: Intercepting head and neck cancer using functional genomics approaches
Trainee Name: Anthony Federico
Faculty Mentor: Stefano Monti, PhD
Graduate Program: Bioinformatics PhD Program, Boston University
Expected Graduation: May 2022

Project Title: Identification of microRNA-mRNA regulatory interactions associated with bronchial premalignant lesion histologic severity and progression
Trainee Name: Boting Ning
Faculty Mentor(s): Jennifer Beane, Marc Lenburg and Avrum Spira
Graduate Program: Bioinformatics
Expected Graduation Month/Year: 2022