11/19/2019
GMI Postdoctoral Fellows Win Bumpus Awards at Cleveland Clinic’s Annual Research Day
Two Genomic Medicine Institute (GMI) postdoctoral fellows received F. Merlin Bumpus Junior Investigator Awards in recognition of their outstanding research as scientists in training at Cleveland Clinic’s 39th Annual Research Day, held on November 18, 2019.
The F. Merlin Bumpus Junior Investigator Award was created to highlight excellence in research by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in both basic and clinical research. It is named after F. Merlin Bumpus, PhD, who served as Chair of the Research Division (now Lerner Research Institute) from 1966-1985.
Iris Nira Smith, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Charis Eng, MD, PhD, received the Bumpus Basic Research Award for her abstract and presentation entitled “Conformational Dynamics and Allosteric Regulation Landscape of Germline PTEN Mutations Associated with Autism Compared to Those with Cancer.”
Elif Irem Sarihan, MD, postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Ignacio Mata, PhD, and co-mentored by Dennis Lal, PhD, received the Bumpus Clinical Research Award for her abstract and presentation entitled “The First-Ever CNV Analysis in Latin American Parkinson’s Disease Patients.”
Yuan Hou, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Feixiong Cheng, PhD, was a Bumpus Clinical Research Award finalist for her abstract and presentation entitled “A Longitudinal Study of Cancer Therapy-Related Cardiac Dysfunction by Network-Based Analysis of Large-Scale Echocardiograms.”
Top: Iris Nira Smith, PhD (left) and Elif Irem Sarihan, MD (right)
Bottom: Yuan Hou, PhD