Feixiong Cheng, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine, and Jessica Castrillon Lal, a PhD student, were awarded the Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Gilliam program supports promising graduate students who are historically underrepresented in science to assume leadership roles in science and foster an inclusive academic environment through culturally responsive mentorship development.
The three-year, $150,000 award will support their project that will use multi-omic network medicine approaches to understand the development of cancer therapy-induced heart failure in cancer survivors. The completion of this project will present compelling preclinical evidence in support of future clinical studies to test novel biomarkers of cancer therapy induced heart failure.