{"id":3148,"date":"2026-10-28T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:28:19","slug":"phrma-foundation-trainee-challenge-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/2026\/10\/28\/phrma-foundation-trainee-challenge-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"PhRMA Foundation Trainee Challenge Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.26.26\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.26.26\u202fAM-229x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.26.26\u202fAM-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.26.26\u202fAM-780x1024.png 780w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.26.26\u202fAM-768x1008.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.26.26\u202fAM.png 876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Graduate Program in Genetics &amp; Genomics (GPGG) at Boston University is pleased to announce the PhRMA Foundation Trainee Challenge Award Winners for Fall 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Congratulations to PhD candidates <\/span><span>Devin Mutha <\/span><span>(Pharmacology),<\/span><span> Chaithanya Vedula <\/span><span>(Molecular and Translational Medicine)<\/span><span>, <\/span><span>and <\/span><span>Sanjana Bhagavatula <\/span><span>(Genetics and Genomics) for their recognition by the\u00a0PhRMA Foundation Trainee Challenge Award, an achievement that not only reflects hard work, but a collaborative spirit.\u00a0 Different PhD programs, different labs, different research projects, ONE commitment to advancing the field together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To recognize this achievement, the Genome Sciences Institute has added an additional $1000 award to their prize pool.<\/p>\n<p><span>An additional congratulations on the publication of their research article, <\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/42675373\/\"><em>Genetic Medicine Approaches for Tumor Suppressor Loss: Therapeutic Replacement with Self-Amplifying RNA<\/em><\/a>, <\/span><span>now online in Pharmaceutical Research!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Congratulations Devin, Chai, and Sanjana\u2014keep up the exceptional work!<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/42675373\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.25.06\u202fAM-650x264.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"264\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3149 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.25.06\u202fAM-650x264.png 650w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.25.06\u202fAM-1024x416.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.25.06\u202fAM-768x312.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-10.25.06\u202fAM.png 1374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Graduate Program in Genetics &amp; Genomics (GPGG) at Boston University is pleased to announce the PhRMA Foundation Trainee Challenge Award Winners for Fall 2026.\u00a0 Congratulations to PhD candidates Devin Mutha (Pharmacology), Chaithanya Vedula (Molecular and Translational Medicine), and Sanjana Bhagavatula (Genetics and Genomics) for their recognition by the\u00a0PhRMA Foundation Trainee Challenge Award, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1907],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}