KGCRF CCA Pilot Phase Fall 2021 Awardees

Awardee: Ceejay Lee

Graduate Program: Molecules, Cells and Organisms

Lab: Brian Liau

KGCRF CCA Award: To support pilot experiments to establish Single-Cell Annotation of Genome Editing (SCAnEdit) to investigate mechanistic functions of Forkhead box A1 (FOXA1)

Awardee: Sophia Liu

Graduate Program: Biophysics

Lab: Fei Chen

KGCRF CCA Award: To support attendance and poster and oral presentation titled “Spatially mapping T cell receptors and transcriptomes” at the Immunology 2022 conference that brings together prominent immunologists and trainees to discuss cutting-edge developments in the field.

Awardee: Catherine Miller

Graduate Program: Molecules, Cells and Organisms

Lab: Fred Winston

KGCRF CCA Award: To support attendance and presentation of the thesis research project at the Gordon Research Conference (From DNA Damage, Repair, and Replication to Immune Activation and Cancer Therapy).

Awardee: Bing Shui

Graduate Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Lab: Kevin Haigis

KGCRF CCA Award: To support attendance at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual meeting with the goal of career advancement through mentorship and networking sessions, as well as learning about new areas in cancer research complementary to the thesis project.