USA’s Prakash Wins DNA Repair Award

Dr. Aishwarya Prakash has been named recipient of the 2024 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) Samuel H. Wilson Award for Studies on DNA Repair. An associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and pharmacology at the Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama (USA), Prakash was chosen from among applications submitted by investigators within 10 years of starting an independent position. She has been invited to give an oral presentation during the annual meeting. The title for her talk and abstract is “Gene-Environment Synergisms and Their Role in Cancer.” She joined the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute in 2016 as an assistant professor of oncologic sciences after completing her postdoctoral research at the University of Vermont. Her work focuses on DNA repair mechanisms in mitochondria. She earned her PhD in cancer research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2010. She also received specialized training in crystallography at Brookhaven National Labs in Long Island, New York.