CFRI’s Elizabeth Nash
Memorial Fellowship
About the Program
Great breakthroughs in patient care start with cutting-edge basic, clinical, or translational research. The Elizabeth Nash Memorial Fellowship, a program of Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute, provides annual funding to Post-Doctoral Fellows engaged in new and promising CF research that is original, probing and/or pioneering a new approach to a therapy or cure.
CFRI renamed this fellowship program in 2003 to honor Liz’s work in CF research, and her service as chairperson of the organization’s Research Advisory Committee.
The Elizabeth & Patrick Nash Foundation invests in this program annually.
Further information on the current fellows & their research projects, and the application process can be found on the CFRI website
Most Recently Funded Fellows
Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator
Saumel Rodriguez Perez, PhD, MS, Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
Development of a Phage-Based Gene Delivery Platform for Restoring Wild-Type CFTR Expression in the Human Lung Epithelia
Sriram Vaidyanathan, PhD, Principal Investigator
Brodie Ranzau, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Gene Insertion of a Gain of Function Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) Variant to Improve CFTR-Mediated Ion Transport
Katrine Whiteson, PhD, Principal Investigator
Sage Dunham, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California Irvine
Overcoming Evolved Bacteriophage Resistance Via Next-Generation Directed Evolution