Principal Investigator
Chioniso Patience Masamha, Ph.D
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Standing member of the National Institutes of Health Biochemical and Cellular Oncogenesis/BCO (formerly Molecular Oncology/MONC) study panel
Member of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC)
2021 National MAVEN Senior Research Scientist
Training
Post-doctoral Fellowship (DoD Visionary postdoctoral fellow) University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston. Texas
Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center . Oklahoma
M.S. in Biological Sciences, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania.
B.S. Honor’s in Biology, University of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe.
External Research Funding
1R01GM135361-01 NIGMS/NIH
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) New Investigator Award
Indiana Academy of Sciences
Department of Defense
Research Interests
- Cancer Biology
- RNA Biology (3’end processing) and anti-sense oligonucleotides (siRNAs and morpholinos)
- Next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics
- Precision Medicine
Our Research in the News
- https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/butler-south-african-researcher-inspires-diverse-students
- R01 award in Butler University and local news
- AACP award in Butler University news and local news
- Science Daily news article on collaborative paper in Nature Genetics in 2018. “New data changes the way scientists explain how cancer tumors develop.” https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180521154245.h