Donna Dang, PhD
@ddangphd
Principal Associate in Biomedical Research @PewTrusts | Former cancer biologist | BTS💜 | F1 🏁 | 🍜 | Daughter of immigrants | Views are my own | She/Her(s)
Plug: I am honoring my late partner for World Cancer Day who lost his battle to cancer. His work in breast cancer genetics is part of his legacy. Please consider supporting cancer research efforts! vfoundation.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuse…
Congrats on the distinction!
We're thrilled to recognize three Pew biomedical scholars who were recently awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by @POTUS. Huge congratulations to @Neal_Lab, @alaurenoconnell, and Kassandra Ori-McKenney! 🎉 whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…
🎉 Excited to welcome Pew's new class of Innovation Fund awardees! Congrats to all!
Our 2024 Innovation Fund class is here🧬 16 scientists are teaming up to tackle major biomedical challenges. From the gut microbiome to the brain’s innerworkings, their collaborative research is poised to transform health and medicine. This year's class👇pew.org/3ZMdeFS
I am thrilled that we are amplifying our Latin American Fellow's program with CZI! Excited for this partnership!
In partnership with @Pewtrusts, we are supporting the Latin American Fellows program, which helps early-career biomedical scientists receive postdoctoral training + the resources they need to start a lab in their home country czi.co/3Z5gPhV
This is super interesting! Glad Pew could support this work🙌🙌
Thrilled to share our @ScienceAdvances paper at science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…! Acoustic pipette to rapidly detect picomolar biomarkers from blood. If you like: Acoustics 🔊 Microfluidics 💧 Biological sensing 🧪 Engineered particles 🟢 Fluorescence detection 🔬 See our tweetorial 🧵
This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. Check out two examples of protein structures determined using AlphaFold2. First up, a bacterial enzyme…
Congratulations to our Pew scholars, John Brooks and Longhua Guo (@GuoLonghua) AND, our Pew-Stewart scholar, Ziyang Zhang (@bignerdzzy)👏 We look forward to see what they continue to accomplish in their careers! #NIHHighRisk
Early-stage investigators proposed #innovative high-impact research ideas for the @NIHDirector’s New Innovator Award. See the projects the awardees will pursue: commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/A… #NIHHighRisk
Congratulations to our Pew scholars, Nuo Li and Nicola Allen! 🥳 We love to see your continued success and look forward to all that you both accomplish. 👏#NIHHighRisk
The @NIHDirector's Pioneer Award funds researchers from all career stages pursuing groundbreaking new ideas to tackle significant challenges in #behavioral, #SocialScience, & #BiomedicalResearch. Meet this year’s awardees: commonfund.nih.gov/pioneer/AwardR… #NIHHighRisk
Congrats to Pew-Stewart scholar, @Anders_S_Hansen for being included as an awardee!👏👏 #NIHHighRisk
With their @NIHDirector’s Transformative Research Award, awardees will pursue groundbreaking science that has the potential to shift traditional scientific paradigms: commonfund.nih.gov/TRA/recipients #NIHHighRisk
BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Congrats to our nine current and former Pew scholars who have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators! We are proud of their work and the continued support for their research and discoveries.👏#HHMIInvestigators
⭐️ Big news! HHMI is investing $300+ million in 26 new #HHMIInvestigators from 19 US institutions. These top scientists will drive groundbreaking research in diverse fields, from neuroscience to immunology to structural biology & beyond. Welcome to HHMI! hhmi.news/4df2eVs
Imagine a world where creams could soothe the mind and offering a gentle touch could combat depression. @IshmailSaboor is doing just that through his research on sensory perception through touch. 🎧 Listen now: pew.org/4bAWHau
We're bringing together neuroscientists with cancer biologists, people unlikely to cross paths in their careers, and it's only been enhancing scientific innovation. I talked on diversity in science on @pewtrusts "After the Fact" podcast. Listen here 👉 pew.org/3W1mZhh
NEW: We're excited to announce the 37 researchers joining our 2024 class of scholars and fellows! 👏 Through their research into brain cancer, respiratory infections, antibiotic resistance, and more, these scientists will help advance biomedical research. pew.org/4boDcSt
We’ve come a long way in treating HIV. However, much more work needs to be done to find a cure. Pew Latin American fellow @gusvasen explores how HIV creates “silent” infected cells that resist treatment. pew.org/43thyKs
🧬 Exciting news! The 2023 class of Pew Innovation Fund investigators is here! 🔬12 brilliant scientists from diverse fields including plant biology, neuroscience, and immunology are teaming up to tackle pressing challenges in health and medicine. Let’s meet the pairs 👇
Mosquitoes are one of the most pervasive and resilient organisms on the planet. What's more, they're experts at spreading disease—making illnesses such as malaria, Zika, and dengue difficult to eradicate. pew.org/3E7poxa
🎉Congrats to our 2023 biomedical scholars and fellows! These 37 early-career scientists are embarking on innovative research projects in neuroscience, microbiology, cancer research, and more. pew.org/3X1DwAU