The Division has recently successfully renewed its project funding from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung to study the aetiology of bone marrow failure in Fanconi anemia. The additional one year of funding will mean that the foundation will have supported this research project for a duration of three years
In collaboration with the group of Daniel Lipka, in the Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, the Division has been awarded a Project Grant from the Deutsche Krebshilfe to study epigenetic plasticity in pre-leukemic hematopoiesis. March 2017.
Congratulations to Ruzhica Bogeska, whose abstract has been selected for oral presentation at the Basel Stem Cell Meeting, “Stem cell dynamics throughout life: from development to the adult”. The meeting will take place in August in Basel.
Big congratulations to Sina Stäble, who was awarded a DKFZ/Weizmann Institute Cancer TRAX PhD-to Postdoc Fellowship. The award will fund an additional two year’s of research for Sina, as she continues to work on a combined project between the Division of Experimental Hematology and the Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, co-supervised by Mick and Daniel Lipka. The Fellowship will also fund a six month research visit to the laboratory of Amos Tanay, at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
Congratulations to Julius Gräsel, who has just been awarded an oral presentation at the 30th Annual International Scientific Symposium of the Fanconi Anemia Research Foundation, which will take place in Newport Beach California in September. Based on the evaluation of Julius’ submitted abstract, his travel costs will be reimbursed by the Research Foundation.
