Ana Fiszbein, PhD

Assistant Professor (Biology)

Office LSE 607
Email anafisz@bu.edu
Website Dynamic determinants of co-transcriptional gene regulation

Publications

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Research Areas

Genomics, genetics, gene regulation, aging, cancer, evolution

Honors and Awards

2022 – 2025 The Smith Family Foundation Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research, Evolution and regulation of hybrid exons, $300,000 total cost. PI: Ana Fiszbein

2022 – 2027 NIH R35 ESI MIRA, Probing co-transcriptional gene regulatory logics in human transcriptomes, $2,062,500 total cost. PI: Ana Fiszbein

2024 – 2028 Hevolution Foundation, Geroscience Research Opportunities, Tracking tissue-specific gene boundaries in aging, $1,971,184 total cost. PI: Ana Fiszbein

2024 – 2028 U.S. – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Deciphering the interplay between promoter structure and splicing decisions, $300,000 total cost. Co-PIs: Ana Fiszbein & Martin Mikl

2024 – 2029 NSF CAREER, Uncovering the role of splicing factors in transcriptional regulation, $1,810,523 total cost. PI: Ana Fiszbein

2021 – 2023 Massachusetts Life Science Center (MLSC) Women’s Health Innovation Program, Elucidating the role of G9a alternative splicing in breast cancer to develop novel targeted therapies, $300,000 total cost. PI: Ana Fiszbein

2022 – 2025 BU Computing & Data Science Faculty Fellowship ($50,000 award)

2021 – 2024 Innovation Career Development Professorship Award ($150,000 award)

2021 – 2024 Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute for Computing ($10,000 award)

2017 – 2020 PEW Latin American Postdoctoral Fellowship ($160,000) * Featured in MIT news (06/20/2017)

2016 Postdoctoral Fellowship from CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Investigations, Argentina) – declined

2012 – 2016 Graduate Fellowship form CONICET

2005 Early scientist award, University of Buenos Aires

Additional Affiliations

CDS Faculty Fellow, Faculty in MCBB, CM, and Bioinformatics PhD programs

Department or Division: Biomedical Engineering

Affiliation: Primary & Affiliated Faculty

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