Dietrich School Faculty Receive Kaufman Foundation Awards for New Initiatives
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Andrea Berman, an associate professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Biological Sciences, and Michael Hatridge, associate professor in the school's Department of Physics and Astronomy, have received two-year, $300,000 Kaufman New Initiative Research Grants.
Berman, along with co-investigator Judith Yanowitz, received funding for the project, "Translation regulation of TMG-capped mRNAs – an evolutionary remnant of trans-splicing?"