CBIO Outstanding Publication Awards

The annual CBIO Outstanding Publication Award recognizes one outstanding publication from a graduate student and one from a postdoctoral fellow.

 

2026 CBIO Outstanding Publication Awardees were announced at the COMET kickoff on September 11, 2026.

PhD category

Krista Budinich (Liling Wan Lab) 

“ RNA reinforces condensate nucleation on chromatin to amplify oncogenic transcription”

 

Postdoc category

Diqui Ren (Junwei Shi Lab)

“Inducible, split base editors for in vivo cancer functional genomics”

 

 

2025 CBIO Outstanding Publication Awardees were announced at the 16th Annual Retreat, Skytop Lodge, Skytop, PA on June 16, 2025.

PhD category

Amy Gladstein (David Feldser Lab)

“The H3K36M oncohistone inhibits NSD2 to activate a SETD2-dependent antiviral-like immune response"

 

Postdoc category

Nelson Freeburg (Dana Silverbush Lab)

“Single cell analysis identifies factors underlying CAR T cell therapy response in glioblastoma”