Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute

T32 Training Grant

This T32 training program funded from July 2016 to June 2021 has been ongoing since its establishment in 1943 by Dr. Max M. Wintrobe. The grant will support both pre-doctoral (PhD and MD/PhD candidates) and post-doctoral researchers (pediatric hematologists, adult hematologists and PhD postdoctoral scholars) working in the areas of metal metabolism, heme biosynthesis, developmental hematopoiesis, stem cell biology and blood cell function in health and disease.


Pre-doctoral trainees:

  • Mattie Casey, GFI1B SNAG Domain Methylation in Megakaryocyte-erythrocyte Lineage Allocation (Mentor: Mike Engel, MD, PhD)
  • Megan Okada, Unraveling Organelle Function in Blood-stage Malaria Parasites (Mentor: Paul Sigala, PhD)
  • Lucas Bus, (Mentor: Tara Deans, PhD)
  • Amanda Mixon, (Mentor: Paul Sigala, PhD)

Post-doctoral trainees:

  • Eric Fredrickson, PhD, Mechanisms of mitochondrial protein quality control and iron sulfur cluster biogenesis (Mentor: Jared Rutter)
  • Chris Ours, MD, (Mentor: Mike Engel, MD, PhD)