Fisk Assistant Professor Recently Awarded an Almost a Half-Million Dollar Grant from The National Science Foundation

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Sandra Phoenix
Wed, Sep 30, 2020 12:59 PM

Fisk University News
September 2020

Fisk Assistant Professor Recently Awarded an Almost a Half-Million Dollar Grant from The National Science Foundation
Dr. Saumya Ramanathan Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Fisk was recently awarded an almost half-million-dollar grant ($493,036) from the National Science Foundation for an "Excellence in Research" Project Grant. The topic of her research is in Cancer Biology and is titled "Functional Characterization of the X-antigen Gene Family". The grant will support the efforts of her lab, including both undergraduate and graduate student trainees, in making important discoveries about a group of genes implicated in cancer. Although she has only been at Fisk for a few years, students from her lab have already gone on to prestigious Ph.D. programs across the country.
Dr. and her team have also recently published a study, which was led by Masters' student Ashley Colemon and Fisk MARC Scholar Taylor Harris. Ashley is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Duke University and Taylor at Wash U. The importance of the study is that it tells us that environmental factors can contribute to the expression of these cancer-specific genes and this could allow us to detect cancer sooner rather than later.

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Fisk University News September 2020 Fisk Assistant Professor Recently Awarded an Almost a Half-Million Dollar Grant from The National Science Foundation Dr. Saumya Ramanathan Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Fisk was recently awarded an almost half-million-dollar grant ($493,036) from the National Science Foundation for an "Excellence in Research" Project Grant. The topic of her research is in Cancer Biology and is titled "Functional Characterization of the X-antigen Gene Family". The grant will support the efforts of her lab, including both undergraduate and graduate student trainees, in making important discoveries about a group of genes implicated in cancer. Although she has only been at Fisk for a few years, students from her lab have already gone on to prestigious Ph.D. programs across the country. Dr. and her team have also recently published a study, which was led by Masters' student Ashley Colemon and Fisk MARC Scholar Taylor Harris. Ashley is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Duke University and Taylor at Wash U. The importance of the study is that it tells us that environmental factors can contribute to the expression of these cancer-specific genes and this could allow us to detect cancer sooner rather than later. SANDRA M. PHOENIX HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. Building Capacity for Humanities Special Collections at HBCUs - Become an ally and partner with us to protect, preserve and share a more authentic record of American history. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/humanities-2019.html for more information. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/ and click on the Donate Now button to invest in this project. Your support is appreciated. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/