PhD Student, Sierrah Grigsby, Receives MGSAA Award

By Dustin Johnston | November 1 2017

Doctoral candidate Sierrah Grigsby from the Nikolovska-Coleska Laboratory has received an Achievement Award from the American Society of Hematology. Sierrah was selected to receive a 2017 Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award (MGSAAA) for her abstract, "The AF9-Binding Domain of DOT1L is Critical for Its Recruitment By MLL Fusion Proteins in Leukemia and Contributes to Its Functions in Normal Hematopoiepsis". The MGSAAA is a merit-based award that is intended to recognize research and help support travel to the 59th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Society of Hematology to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on December 9-12, 2017.