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| Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded in Aging and in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation is sponsoring Anita Changela, Ph.D. who has been named the second Ellison Medical Foundation Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. Changela is conducting age-related research on telomeres at the Duke University Medical Center. The focus of her research is on the investigation of telomerase structure in order to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying telomerase activity in atomic detail with a particular emphasis on studying the nature of telomerase RNA-protein interactions. The award is pledged up to $153,000 to support her 3 year fellowship. The EMF is continuing to support the 1st named fellow David Raskin, Ph.D. of Harvard Medical School who is conducting research on Vibrio cholerae.The Ellison Medical Foundation is sponsoring a $50,000 Fellowship in International Infectious Diseases through the Infectious Diseases Society of America for Regina LaRoque, M.D., M.P.H. who will be working at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh as part of Dr. Steven Calderwood’s (Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital) cholera research program. LaRoque’s work will consist of a comparison of the genes expressed by V. cholerae in the upper versus lower gastrointestinal tract of patients, in order to assess those genes important to the pathogenic interaction during human infection. |
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