Nina Nishiyama, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the labs of Terry Furey and Shehzad Sheikh, received an F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA).
Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Her proposal, entitled Using molecular quantitative trait loci mapping approaches to determine candidate gene regulatory mechanisms of functional variants within inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) GWAS loci, seeks to better identify and characterize how specific genetic variants are functionally contributing to the onset of IBD. This exciting work will lead to a better understanding of the molecular contributors to this uncurable disease.