New Faces, New Grants!

People news: The Chung Lab welcomes Dr. Gabrielle Abraham, Ellie Kraichely, and Edward Lien! Dr. Gabrielle Abraham earned her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara under the direction of Prof. Omar Saleh. Ellie Kraichely graduated from the College of Charleston and is PhD student in Chemistry. Edward Lien graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and is a PhD student in the Medical Biophysics program at USC Keck.

Awards/Fellowships: Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow Regina Agulto has been awarded a Fellowship from the Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program! She will be graduating from the Ori-McKenney Lab at the University of California, Davis.

Grant News: The Chung Lab has been awarded a 5-year, $2 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the NIH to understand how intrinsically disordered proteins interact (with each other) on biological surfaces. The project will focus on the physiological function and diseased dysfunction of proteins involved in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.