Dr. Yanxin Pei receives prestigious grant from V Foundation | Children's National

Dr. Yanxin Pei receives prestigious grant from V Foundation | Children's National

Dr. Yanxin Pei receives prestigious grant from V Foundation

Yanxin Pei, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Brain Tumor Institute and the Children’s Research Institute at Children’s National Hospital, was recently awarded a prestigious grant by V Foundation to support her groundbreaking work in finding new treatments for childhood medulloblastoma.

Having already developed one of the most important mouse models of this disease, Dr. Pei’s present V Foundation Award, which includes becoming a V scholar, will explore the role of metabolism in the development of metastasis in MYC-amplified medulloblastomas.