The Biden Cancer Moonshot Program named Penn Medicine’s Richard E. Phillips, chief of the division of Neuro-Oncology and an assistant professor of neurology, a Cancer Moonshot Scholar. Phillips, a Core Member of the Epigenetics Institute, is among 11 scholars included in this year’s cohort, who together will receive a total of $6 million to support cancer research and innovation across the country. The $683,099 grant will support Phillips as he researches tumor epigenetics, an emerging field pertaining to how changes to DNA can impact the development of cancer cells, with a specific focus on brain tumors in children and young adults.

Read more about Dr. Phillips and this award in Penn Today: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/white-house-names-abramson-cancer-center-neuro-oncologist-cancer-moonshot-scholar