Congratulations to Waisman investigator Daifeng Wang and affiliate Anjon Audhya for being honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships, and the Kellett Mid-Career Awards, respectively. These awards recognize faculty that have made exceptional research contributions to their fields.
Daifeng Wang is an associate professor of biostatistics and medical informatics. His lab develops machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to understand cellular and molecular mechanisms in brain diseases. He is a NSF Career Awardee and teaches advanced bioinformatics. He directs the data science core at the Waisman Center, serves as a journal editor for Genome Biology and PLoS Computational Biology, and is a member of multiple federal review panels.
Anjon Audhya, professor of biomolecular chemistry, takes advantage of genetic, biochemical, and microscopy-based approaches to dissect basic regulatory mechanisms that control protein trafficking and organelle dynamics. Although basic research is the cornerstone of his program, he also seeks to define pathomechanisms that underlie human disease, focusing on the impact of mutations in key trafficking components that lead to neurodegeneration and cancer.