Xing Receives Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant
October 12, 2009
Yi Xing, Ph.D., UI assistant professor of internal medicine and biomedical engineering, has received a junior faculty award from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation. The one-year $60,000 grant was effective Oct. 1, and Xing is eligible for two additional years of funding.
Mallinckrodt grants support highly promising young investigators. The foundation is particularly interested in funding basic research that has the potential to impact disease.
Xing will use high-throughput sequencing to study how human genetic mutations disrupt splicing of messenger RNA molecules and cause diseases.