Researcher Stories
Get to know the PhRMA Foundation’s award recipients.
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.
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Computational Modeling to Predict Drug Behavior in Treating Joint Diseases
Dr. Shamimur Akanda, a postdoctoral trainee at Washington University in St. Louis, is developing a computational model to predict how medicines will behave when injected into joints to treat diseases such as osteoarthritis.
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Identifying a Novel Biomarker for Cervical Cancer Progression
On her journey to becoming a physician scientist, PhRMA Foundation awardee Eleanor Agosta is researching cancer genomics at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Watch NowTargeting Understudied Proteins for Cancer Drug Development
UNC-Chapel Hill PhD student Jacob Capener is working to develop new chemical tools that will allow him to investigate the therapeutic potential of understudied proteins.
Awardee Spotlight
Zhimin Huang, PhD
- University of Pittsburgh
“The Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Delivery empowers our efforts to advance noninvasive, site-specific brain therapeutics, bringing us closer to precision treatments that enhance efficacy and minimize side effects. I am grateful to the PhRMA Foundation.”
Personalized Medicine for Atrial Fibrillation
Dr. Noor Momin is investigating the role of the immune system in atrial fibrillation (AFib), an irregular heartbeat condition that affects nearly 1 in 10 elderly people.