Faculty Receive Zumberge Awards

The USC Office of Research and Innovation has granted Zumberge Preliminary Studies Research Awards to USC Mann faculty members Houda Alachkar, Serghei Mangul and Paul Seidler.

Houda Alachkar, PharmD, PhD, has received the Zumberge Preliminary Studies Large Program Award, a $100,000 grant, for the project “APOC2- CD36 Deregulation Presents a Metabolic Vulnerability in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.”

Serghei Mangul, PhD, has received the Zumberge Preliminary Studies Large Program Award, a $100,000 grant, for the project “Developing Reliable and Scalable Methods for Deep Immune Phenotyping in Public Transcriptomics Databases Across Diverse Populations.”

Paul Seidler, PhD, has received the Zumberge Preliminary Studies Research – STEM Award, a $50,000 grant, for the project “Structure-Based Investigation of Neurotransmitters as Modifiers of Tau Aggregation.”

Read more at the USC Office of Research and Innovation.