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Professor Stephan Schneider receives Carver Trust Award

December 2011

Dr. Stephan Q. Schneider, assistant professor of GDCB, was awarded a three-year grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa in the amount of $376,882 for his research on the integration of the oncogenic wnt/β-caternin pathway into embryonic gene regulatory networks. This signal transduction pathway is involved in many diseases including cancers, neurological diseases and kidney diseases as well as stem cell biology and developmental processes.

Professor Schneider and his research team will investigate different contexts of βcat activation during early development to better understand the role of the wnt/ βcat pathway in contextual differences and how those differences ultimately lead to specific diseases outcomes. He hopes to develop strategies that will gain a comprehensive understanding of the role of wnt/ βcat.  See the ISU Foundation press release.

The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust is a philanthropic foundation in Iowa that was created through the will of Roy J. Carver, a Muscatine industrialist and philanthropist, who died in 1981.