Tri-Institutional MD-PhD student, Abderhman "Abood" Abuhashem, has been awarded an F30 research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will support Mr. Abuhashem's research in the Hadjantonakis Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he is currently working toward his PhD, in particular his project "Dissecting the Role of RNA Pol II Pausing in Early Mammalian Development."
Mr. Abuhashem described the context of his research and its goals by saying "RNA polymerase is the machinery that reads genes and produces mRNA from them. It turns out that this machinery can be loaded to the start point of a gene and stay stuck there waiting for further instructions, a process described as promoter-proximal pausing. My project aims to understand the role of this process in early mammalian development and how it could facilitate acquiring new identities for cells as they start making the embryo proper."
Abderhman Abuhashem
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