{"id":5589,"date":"2026-07-29T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:29:45","slug":"gsi-supports-7-bmsip-students-extended-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/2026\/07\/29\/gsi-supports-7-bmsip-students-extended-research\/","title":{"rendered":"GSI Supports 7 BMSIP Students&#8217; Extended Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">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:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Project Proposal Title:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Mapping cross-disorder genetic risk in psychiatry to molecular changes in the human postmortem brain<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Manasvi Ghonge<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">PI: Dr. Nikolaos Daskalakis, Dept. of Pharmacology, Physiology &amp; Biophysics<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Project Proposal Title:<\/span><i><span>\u00a0<\/span>Structure-Guided Discovery of Large Serine Recombinases (LSRs) as Programmable Genome-Integration Tools for Gene Therapy\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Cam Nowack<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">PI: Dr. Samagya Banskota, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Project Proposal Title:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Computational Identification of Airway Epithelial Surface Targets from Lung Single-Cell Atlases<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Iris Lee<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">PI: Dr. Lei Hou, Hou Group of Systems Genomics and Genetics<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Project Proposal Title:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Spatial proteomics to understand the role of the tumor microenvironment in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PanNET) progression<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Leah Morzenti<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">PI: Dr. Ruben Dries, Dept. of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Project Proposal Title:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) Genetic Mutations in Pediatric Osteosarcoma<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Mohammad Gharandouq<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">PI: Dr. Rachel Flynn, Dept. of Pharmacology, Physiology &amp; Biophysics<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Project Proposal Title:<\/span><em> Studying activity dependent transcriptome in ACC and LPFC cortical regions of rhesus monkeys<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lauren Anderson<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">PI: Dr. Ella Zeldich and Dr. Maria Medalla, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Project Proposal Title:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Computational and Machine-Learning Approaches to Enzyme Discovery\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Xiaohe Jin<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">PI: Dr. Pinghua Liu, Dept. of Chemistry<\/div>\n<div><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Thank you all for your submissions, and congratulations to the 7 scholars!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GSI is pleased to announce that the center will be supporting 7 recently graduated BMSIP students for Fall 2026. 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