2 CSU researchers win Boettcher Foundation biomedical grants
FORT COLLINS — Two Colorado State University researchers who study tiny organisms and their roles in viruses and cancer have received awards that will fund three years of research for their laboratories.
Rushika Perera, an assistant professor of virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Tim Stasevich, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in CSU’s College of Natural Sciences, each received $225,000 Webb-Waring Biomedical Research awards through the Denver-based Boettcher Foundation.
The foundation announced this week that the scientists will join the 2016 class of Boettcher Investigators, 10 early-career researchers who are getting established in their fields. The foundation will support their work as they become competitive for major awards from federal and private sources.
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For the past three years, Perera has run a lab at CSU’s Foothills Campus, studying how dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika viruses behave in their mosquito hosts. Stasevich’s lab develops fluorescence microscopy techniques to image proteins in living cells in order to better understand genetic processes and subsequently control and correct gene misregulation. His team will study how epigenetics in particular contribute to cancer development.
