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Postdoc awarded cancer research fellowship
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards three-year fellowships to outstanding scientists conducting cancer research at major research centers under the sponsorship of leading scientists. Biggins, who is working in John T. Koh’s laboratory, has engineered a modified estrogen-hormone receptor, using hormones the lab has designed, to control how that receptor responds to cellular signals related to the progression of breast cancer. In the 59 years the research foundation has been making awards, 11 Runyon scientists have gone on to win Nobel Prizes. There are more than 139 fellows at leading cancer research institutions in the U.S. Each year more than 450 scientists submit support proposals, but only about 50 receive postdoctoral fellowships. Biggins graduated from Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y., with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and in chemistry. He later returned to the Fordham as an organic chemistry laboratory technician for two years before matriculating into the pharmacology doctoral program at the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University. There, he worked under the guidance of Dr. Jon Thorson in his Laboratory for Biosynthetic Chemistry at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, and later at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He came to UD as a postdoctoral fellow in 2003. Article by Kathy Canavan To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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