Rachel Fearns was awarded an Individual Biomedical Research Award from the The Hartwell Foundation for her research proposal entitled “Treating Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection by Targeting the Viral Polymerase.” This competitive award is to fund early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research to benefit children. Bravo, Rachel.
Gregory Wasserman, a graduate student in the Jones Lab who was awarded a National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship for his work on elucidating novel mechanisms of epithelial cytokine regulation during bacterial pneumonia. Kudos, Greg!
Congratulations to Sila Ataca, a graduate student in the Kepler Lab, who was awarded a Faculty for Future Fellowship Award from the Schlumberger Foundation for her work using experimental and computational tools for characterizing antibodies during affinity maturation in the human response to anthrax vaccine with the aim of developing enhanced vaccines.