CCEH Quarterly Newsletter

February 2025

Issue 15

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Seminar Series

Highlighted CCEH Core

Iron and Heme Core Facility

Want to measure metals in your samples? You can do it here! Want to measure Heme precursors and enzymes in heme biosynthesis? You can do it at this core! To learn more about this core check out our YouTube recording here!

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Activities

10th Congress of the BioIron Society

Monteal, Quebec, Canada | May 25 - 29, 2025

Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Fred Hutch Cancer Center | June 23 – August 22, 2025

CIHD Rising Stars Symposium and Training

University of Utah School of Medicine | March 10th, 2025

YCCEH Leadership and Management Skills Course

Yale University School of Medicine | March 2025

U24 P&F Funding Opportunities

The NIDDK U24-supported Cooperative Centers of Excellence in Hematology (CCEH) have joined forces to provide novel support mechanisms for junior faculty, postdocs, and trainees who want to pursue new studies in non-malignant hematology. Center Directors welcome applicants from across the US and will strive to provide equal access to the cutting-edge resources and expertise available in their centers.

Type A Support

$5,000 – $12,000 worth of “core credits” to be used to provide quick and equitable access to services and expertise offered by all CCEH cores. Rolling deadlines, abbreviated application forms, and streamlined review all contribute to rapid distribution of core credits.

Applications are due on a rolling basis. Apply NOW!

Type B Support

Up to $75,000 for one year. Pilots should involve new scientific directions or the development or application of a novel technology. It is not expected that any preliminary data be provided, but the scientific premise should be supported by literature.

Due Date: Check back in 2025

For more information, visit our funding page.

Hot off the Press

Congratulations to Makiko Yasuda CCEH/CIHD P&F recipient and colleagues for their recent publication

Noncanonical role of ALAS1 as a heme-independent inhibitor of small RNA-mediated silencing

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Congratulations to The Paul Sigala Lab for their recent publication

Malaria parasites require a divergent heme oxygenase for apicoplast gene expression and biogenesis

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Featured Faculty

Co-Director and Fred Hutchinson CCEH Leader Derek Stirewalt, MD

Dr. Derek Stirewalt is the co-leader of the Centers of Excellence in Hematology. He runs the Pilot and Feasibility Programs that is sponsored by the CCEH U24 from NIDDK. He is also the director of the Fred Hutchinson U54 CCEH and has been the leader for the Cell Procurement & Processing Core offered at the Fred Hutch U54. Dr. Stirewalt’s research focuses on myeloproliferative disorders.

To learn more about his research, check out his lab website here.