Highlights from the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute

Noteworthy achievements by PGFI members

• PGFI Associate Director, Dr. Thomas Curran, and PGFI member, Dr. Garret FitzGerald, were among the 65 new members elected into the Institute of  Medicine on Oct. 12, 2009. This is one of the highest honors in recognition of professional achievement and service in the fields of health and medicine.
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• Dr. Sarah Tishkoff was awarded aNational Institutes of Health’s prestigious Pioneer Award, which she will use to fund the development of a systems biology approach to explore the interactive effects of genomic variation, gene expression, metabolism, and the environment on normal variable traits in ethnically diverse African populations. (Read more.)


• PGFI co-Directors Drs. Junhyong Kim and Jim Eberwine received $1.2 million in funding for their NIH EUREKA grant proposal to test the hypothesis that the genome-scale molecular physiology of neurons from different tissues and closely related species have broad differences, and that functional non-coding RNA derived from evolutionarily novel elements plays a role in establishing these differences.