Senior and New Scholars Awards for UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Dr. Chi-Wei Lu

UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
2009 new Scholar Award in aging
The increasing incidence of cancer in the aging population is a major cause of mortality. Other than the accumulation of mutations, there exists no evidence to associate aging with epigenetic instabilities and cancer formation. I propose to build a system to model cancer formation from embryonic stem cells. The clear genetic background will...

Funded Institutions

The Ellison Medical Foundation fosters research by means of grants-in-aid on behalf of investigators to universities and laboratories within the United States. Institutions receiving awards must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or U.S. colleges or universities.