January 6, 2016
Christin Burd named Damon Runyon Innovator
Congratulations to Christin Burd who received a Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award! This highly competitive award is designed to support exceptionally creative scientists whose high-risk/high-reward projects are poised to change our understanding of cancer. Her project proposes novel, mutation-specific studies of RAS in a tumor types, including melanoma, thyroid cancer, and acute myeloid leukemia.