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Assistant Professor Vignesh Kasinath Receives Pew Biomedical Science Grant

The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the 22 researchers joining the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. These early-career scientists will receive four years of funding to uncover fundamental insights about human health and disease.

鈥淔or 40 years, Pew has supported young, talented researchers as they take creative approaches to solving big scientific questions,鈥 said Donna Frisby-Greenwood, Pew鈥檚 senior vice president for Philadelphia and scientific advancement. 鈥淭his new class continues that legacy, and we look forward to seeing where their discoveries lead.鈥

The 2025 class鈥攁ll early-career, junior faculty鈥攎arks the 40th group of Pew scholars to be awarded funding since the program鈥檚 founding in 1985. They join a rich network of more than 1,000 Pew-funded scientists and will have opportunities to meet annually to exchange ideas and form collaborations across disciplines.

鈥淧ew-funded scientists have long contributed to biomedical research discoveries that have improved human health,鈥 said Lee Niswander, Ph.D., a 1995 Pew scholar and chair of the program鈥檚 national advisory committee. 鈥淚鈥檓 confident this new class of scholars, with their innovative and creative approaches to scientific research, will continue this tradition.鈥 Niswander is currently the 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCDB) Chair, Principal Investigator, and Distinguished Professor.听

Dr. Kasinath will study how cells 鈥渟ilence鈥 transposons, genetic elements whose movement within the genome can disrupt the function of genes.

Dr. Vignesh Kasinath