Researcher Stories
Get to know the PhRMA Foundation’s award recipients.
Tracking Residual Cancer Cells After Treatment to Prevent Relapse
Yu-Hsiang Chen, a postdoctoral trainee at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, is using single-cell technology to study the cancer cells that remain after stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer.
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Leveraging Real-World Data and Patient Preferences to Improve Depression Treatment
PhD candidate Tim Lai at Auburn University is using real-world data and patient preferences to help guide more effective treatment of depression.
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Understanding the Glioblastoma Treatment Failures and Evaluating New Options
PhD student Annalisa Ferrotta is conducting research at Weill Cornell Medicine to try to understand why treatments that have been effective for other cancers have not worked for glioblastoma.
Watch NowEvaluating the Long-Term Safety of Antenatal Corticosteroids for Preterm Birth
PhD student Sola Olawore at UNC-Chapel Hill is studying the long-term safety of antenatal corticosteroids, a treatment given to pregnant people at imminent risk of preterm birth.
Awardee Spotlight
Shamimur Akanda, PhD
- Washington University in St. Louis
“I am incredibly honored to receive the PhRMA Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Drug Delivery. This award will help me to develop a robust in vitro in vivo correlation model for intra-articular drug delivery and to advance the field of drug delivery. ”
A New Approach to Protect Brain Cells From Parkinson’s Disease
Thomas Kuret, an MD-PhD student at Thomas Jefferson University, is researching whether activating a specific protein can prevent or reverse brain cell death in Parkinson’s disease.