2023 Intramural Research Awards
, by Elise Tookmanian, Ph.D.
Clockwise from upper left: Batel Blechter, Thong Luong, Ting Zhang, and Richard Remigio.
DCEG Intramural Research Awards (IRAs) are competitive funding opportunities designed to foster creative, high-impact research by fellows and tenure-track investigators. Proposals are evaluated on their potential for significant scientific or public health impact, innovation, interdisciplinary nature, ability to achieve the objectives within the proposed time frames and with the proposed resources, and programmatic relevance to DCEG’s mission.
The following proposals were selected for a 2023 IRA:
- Batel Blechter, Ph.D., M.A. - “Exposure to biomass burning and transcriptomic changes in the nasal epithelium in never-smoking women in Peru and Guatemala.”
- Thong Luong, Ph.D. - “Single-cell multiome analysis of frozen lung tissues from African American populations.”
- Ting Zhang, Ph.D., M.P.H. - “Identification of novel biomarkers of alcohol intake using untargeted lipidomics in the Women’s Alcohol Study: A randomized controlled trial.”
- Richard Remigio, Ph.D., M.S., M.Phil. - “Wildfires, air pollution, and extreme temperature: Evaluating the effects of climate change-driven exposures on cancer mortality and incidence.”