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Honors and Awards
Ryan Mulqueen, postdoctoral fellow in the Navin Lab, awarded the FY24 Odyssey Fellowship
The Odyssey Program sponsors outstanding postdoctoral fellows who wish to pursue innovative cancer research at MD Anderson.
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., has been appointed to the 2021 Grady F. Saunders, Ph.D. Distinguished Professorship for Molecular Biology
The Grady F. Saunders, Ph.D. Distinguished Professorship for Molecular Biology was established in 2007 by Dr. Priscilla Saunders in memory of her husband, Dr. Grady Saunders, who passed away in 2005. Both spouses retired from MD Anderson.
Darlan Conterno Minussi, graduate student in the Navin Lab, awarded the 2021-2022 Schissler Foundation Fellowship
The Schissler Foundation Fellowship fosters collaboration with the emphasis on basic science projects with the greatest likelihood of translational application to human health. This prestigious awards gives significant help to research studies that will seek to make major contributions to the therapies and cures of common human disease through genetics.
Hanghui Ye, graduate student in the Navin Lab, awarded the 2021-2022 Andrew Sowell-Wade Huggins Fellowship in Cancer Research
This award is given in recognition of excellence in a faculty-student team. In particular, it recognizes the student's accomplishments and promise as a scientist and at the same time recognizes and honors a faculty member who has made singular contributions to both MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and cancer research.
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., received the 2021 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Cancer Research for his seminal contributions to the understanding of genome evolution and intratumor heterogeneity in breast cancer and for his invention of single-cell DNA sequencing, which has impacted many diverse fields of biology and biomedicine and has directly contributed to the establishment of the single cell genomics field
The AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Cancer Research was established by the AACR to recognize an early-career investigator for meritorious achievements in basic cancer research.