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UMMS scholar receives Young Investigator Award from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation

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UMass Med Now
11/25/2014

John A. Pulikkan, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Lucio H. Castilla, PhD, associate professor in the Program in Gene Function & Expression, received a Young Investigator Award from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer. The award provides $100,000 in funding to young investigators with outstanding promise who are doing cancer research relevant to new treatments and cures for pediatric cancers. Dr. Pulikkan is one of 22 researchers to receive the award this year.

“I am thrilled and honored to receive the Young Investigator Award from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation,” said Pulikkan.

Pulikkan studies how mutations in the DNA of blood cells direct leukemia formation. Specifically, he works in the development of a novel molecule that inhibits the expansion of acute myeloid leukemia cells with mutations in the core binding factor (CBF) beta gene.

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