Researcher Stories
Get to know the PhRMA Foundation’s award recipients.
Designing Better Tuberculosis Medicines for the Patients Who Need Them Most
Dr. Sichen Song, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, aims to make tuberculosis treatment easier and more effective by creating medicines that are easier to store, better absorbed by the body, and require fewer pills for patients to take.
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Measuring Brain Activity to Improve Concussion Diagnosis
Dr. Taotao Wu, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, aims to develop a more objective way to measure how the brain is functioning after a concussion.
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Investigating Insurance Barriers to Obesity Care
Emeka “Elvis” Duru, a PhD student at the University of Utah, is researching how insurance coverage policies hinder patient access to new GLP-1 medicines for treating obesity.
Read MoreUsing AI and Skin Cells to Advance Precision Medicine for ALS
Zizheng Li, a fifth-year PhD student at the University of California, San Francisco, is using an unconventional approach to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease.
Awardee Spotlight
Thu Pham
- University of California, San Francisco
“This PhRMA Foundation award supports my PhD work to study how gene regulation drives chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, using CRISPR and multi-omics in human sensory neurons to inform safer, more effective cancer treatments for patients everywhere.”
Improving Existing Antibiotics to Fight Tuberculosis
Mary Nantongo, a PhD student at Case Western Reserve University, aims to develop therapeutics to better manage drug-resistant tuberculosis, which has a tremendous impact on families and communities in her home country of Uganda.