Keerthana Gnanapradeepan is the 2019 Monica H.M. Shander Memorial Fellowship Awardee

Keerthana Gnanapradeepan, a trainee in the Murphy lab, is the recipient of the 2019 Monica H.M. Shander Memorial Fellowship Award.
 
This prestigious award was established in 1981 in memory of former Wistar predoctoral trainee Monica H.M. Shander and is conferred annually to a predoctoral trainee who displays notable excellence in scholastics as well as aptitude and diligence in the laboratory.
 
Gnanapradeepan was recognized for her work on an African-specific variant of p53, the most frequently mutated gene in cancer.