Vignesh Kasinath gets Pew scholarship to study human health and disease

Vignesh Kasinath gets Pew scholarship to study human health and disease

Dr. Vignesh Kasinath, an assistant professor of biochemistry at University of Colorado Boulder, has joined the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences with 21 other early-career scientists. They will receive four years of funding to uncover fundamental insights about human health and disease, the Pew Charitable Trusts announced. Dr. Kasinath will study how cells “silence” transposons, genetic elements whose movement within the genome can…