UNC Lineberger researcher Jill Dowen, PhD, has received a distinguished award for cancer genetics research from the Kimmel Scholars Program.
Dowen is an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and in the UNC-Chapel Hill Biology Department. She was one of 15 promising researchers from around the nation chosen to receive one of the $200,000 awards through the Sidney Kimmel Foundation’s Kimmel Scholars program this year.
With the award, researchers have the opportunity to launch their first research laboratories and build their teams.
Dowen received the award to study the long-range chromosomal interactions in cancer.
“With this funding from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation we can now ask whether changes in chromosomal interactions may underlie the development of cancer,” Dowen said. “Specifically, we are focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms that give rise to the altered gene expression observed in leukemia cells.”
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