2009 Ellison Medical Foundation Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation selected

Hung-Chun Chang, Ph.D. has been selected as an Ellison Medical Foundation Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. Dr. Chang is conducting research entitled "Investigating SIRT1 effect on autophagy modulation" in the laboratory of 1998 EMF Senior Scholar Dr. Leonard Guarente at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $171,000 over a three year period to support his fellowship through the Life Sciences Research Foundation. For further information on the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of The Life Sciences Research Foundation, see http://www.lsrf.org/pages/geninfo.htm.