Dr. Ghosh did her PhD on inflammation and gene regulation with ICIS Past-President Dr. Kate Fitzgerald at UMass Chan Medical School. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Ivan Zanoni (Cytokines 2028 Boston Meeting Program Chair) at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School working on the roles of inflammation in diseases such as cancer. Previously, she won the Charles A. King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship and her award on cancer immunology was called Simeon J. Fortin Charitable Foundation Fellowship.
About the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation Career Development award, this is a pathway to independence award – “Career Development Awards are mentored awards intended to facilitate the development of individuals with research potential to prepare for a career of independent basic research investigation in the area of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)”. More information can be found here:
https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/research/grants-fellowships/career-development-awards
Her award winning project is centered on understanding the roles of interferons in colitis and colorectal cancer and exploiting their functions for treating IBD patients.