2023 Pilot Awards and Fellowships

Winning Fellowships 

“Modeling Human Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP), MDS, and AML Using in Vitro Hematopoiesis from Gene-Edited Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells” 

Lead Investigator: Yong-Oon Ahn, PhD, associate research scientist,

Emily Mace Lab

“Investigate the Impact of Genotoxic Therapies on rDNA Instability at the Single Cell Level and Its Role in Therapy-Induced MDS/AML” 

Lead Investigator: Xiaolu Zhu, PhD, post-doctoral research scientist

Shan Zha, Lab 

Winning Pilot Awards 

“Predicting AML by Means of m6A and YTHDF Proteins Activity” 

Lead Investigator: Sara Zaccara, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology 

“Nucleolar Dysfunction as a Therapeutic Liability in Cohesin Mutant MDS” 

Lead Investigator: Aaron Viny, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Columbia Stem Cell Initiative 

Co-Investigator: Hans Scnoek Willem, Byron M. Thomason Professor of Medicine (in Microbiology and Immunology)