MD/PhD student receives National Cancer Institute support

Eunice Chen, an MD/PhD student at Penn State College of Medicine, recently received a National Cancer Institute funding award.

Eunice Chen, an MD/PhD student at Penn State College of Medicine, recently received a National Cancer Institute F30 award for her project titled “Mechanistic studies of genomic RNA dimerization in an oncoretrovirus.”

Chen’s work aims to utilize microscopy and biochemical techniques to understand the mechanism of genome dimerization in Rous sarcoma virus and its implications in RNA genome packaging.

Chen, who expects to graduate in 2020, earned her BS in molecular biology from University of California – San Diego in 2006. She is a graduate student in the laboratory of Leslie Parent, MD, in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

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