Congratulations to Rahul S. Bhansali, MD, on receiving a 2024 Physician-Scientist Training Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation! Dr. Bhansali, a postdoc in the Blobel Lab, is one of four scientists with exceptional promise and novel approaches to fighting cancer to receive this year’s award. This award, established to help bolster the ranks […]
We are pleased to announce that Golnaz Vahedi, PhD, has been appointed co-Director of the Penn Epigenetics Institute. Golnaz will fill the role vacated by Marisa Bartolomei, PhD, upon her appointment as Director of the Center for Women’s Health and Reproductive Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Marisa has long been a leader at Penn […]
Congratulations to Mitchell A. Lazar, Core Member of the Epigenetics Institute on receiving the George M. Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians! The AAP, an elected society of the nation’s most distinguished physician scientists, was founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Sir William Osler. The Kober Medal, first presented at the annual […]
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Marisa S. Bartolomei, PhD, Perelman Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, as the new Director of the Center for Women’s Health and Reproductive Medicine (formerly known as the Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health) at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM). Dr. Bartolomei has made instrumental discoveries in advancing epigenetic […]
The Epigenetics Institute mourns the loss of Michael Grunstein, PhD, whose work is foundational to the study of chromatin and epigenetics. In addition to his groundbreaking scientific discoveries in the 1990’s revealing the central biological role of histones and their acetylation modifications, Michael was also a treasured colleague who challenged those around him in a positive […]
Dear Epigenetics Institute, We were all deeply saddened to learn of David Allis’ passing in early January, at far too young an age of 71. David’s discoveries over nearly 30 years, launching with his groundbreaking 1996 Cell paper reporting the first nuclear histone acetyltransferase, GCN5, had enormous impacts on the fields of histone biology and […]