Six ASGCT Members Earn Career Development Awards
ASGCT Staff - October 23, 2019
ASGCT’s Career Development Awards support independent transformative pilot studies in gene and cell therapy conducted by ASGCT members.
The American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) has selected six members to receive $50,000 Career Development Awards, a total distribution of $300,000. This group of awardees is ASGCT’s second class of Career Development Award recipients, a program in which ASGCT recognizes members who are transitioning toward independence in their careers.
ASGCT’s Career Development Awards support independent transformative pilot studies in gene and cell therapy conducted by ASGCT members, particularly those ideas that would be challenging to fund with normal funding mechanisms.
ASGCT’s six awardees are a diverse group from varied and wide-ranging specialties:
Mohommadsharif Tabebordbar, Ph.D.—postdoctoral associate, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Developing liver-detargeted and muscle-tropic AAV capsid variants across species
Geoffrey L. Rogers, Ph.D.—postdoctoral scholar, University of Southern California
Improved strategies for site-specific gene insertion using non-homologous end joining
Daniel L. Kiss, Ph.D.—assistant professor, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Construction of circular RNAs to block miRNA-driven oncogenic transformation
Kshitiz Singh, M.B.B.S., M.M.S.T., Ph.D.—research fellow, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Development of non-viral mechanisms of targeting lung epithelial cells for prenatal gene editing in a large animal model
Christopher Nelson, Ph.D.—assistant professor, University of Arkansas
Characterizing and overcoming the host response to genome editing therapy
Kalpana Parvathaneni, MS, Ph.D.— postdoctoral researcher, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania
Engineered CAR-T Cells to Overcome Alloimmunity in Transplant Rejection
Congratulations to the awardees!
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