Updates + Accolades / Pew Charitable Trust Recognizes Promising Faculty

Two UT Southwestern early-career investigators, Gerta Hoxhaj, Ph.D. (left), and Yuuki Obata, Ph.D. (right), were selected for Pew Charitable Trusts biomedical research fellowship programs in recognition of their work and service to the scientific community. Both will receive $300,000 in funding over four years.

Dr. Hoxhaj, Assistant Professor at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern and of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, studies how cellular metabolism is reprogrammed in cancer. She was selected as a Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research because of the potential impact of her work.

Dr. Obata, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Neuroscience, studies how the circadian clock in gut nerves regulates immunity and behavior. He was selected as a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences and is one of five new Pew Scholars who will make up the eighth class of the Kathryn W. Davis Aging Brain Scholars.