GSI Supports 7 BMSIP Students’ Extended Research
The GSI is pleased to announce that the center will be supporting 7 recently graduated BMSIP students for Fall 2026. After thoughtful consideration from independent faculty members, the following recipients were selected from outstanding and thorough project proposals:
Project Proposal Title: Mapping cross-disorder genetic risk in psychiatry to molecular changes in the human postmortem brain
Amalya Murrill
PI: Dr. Nikolaos Daskalakis, Dept. of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
Project Proposal Title: Structure-Guided Discovery of Large Serine Recombinases (LSRs) as Programmable Genome-Integration Tools for Gene Therapy
Cam Nowack
PI: Dr. Samagya Banskota, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Project Proposal Title: Differential Gene Expression analysis of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with mutations in the AGO2 and DCR2 genes
Emily Dunlop
PI: Dr. Nelson Lau, Dept. of Biochemistry
Project Proposal Title: Computational Identification of Airway Epithelial Surface Targets from Lung Single-Cell Atlases
Iris Lee
PI: Dr. Lei Hou, Hou Group of Systems Genomics and Genetics
Project Proposal Title: Spatial proteomics to understand the role of the tumor microenvironment in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PanNET) progression
Leah Morzenti
PI: Dr. Ruben Dries, Dept. of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology
Project Proposal Title: Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) Genetic Mutations in Pediatric Osteosarcoma
Mohammad Gharandouq
PI: Dr. Rachel Flynn, Dept. of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
Project Proposal Title: Computational and Machine-Learning Approaches to Enzyme Discovery
Xiaohe Jin
PI: Dr. Pinghua Liu, Dept. of Chemistry
Thank you all for your submissions, and congratulations to the 7 scholars!