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Two new awards support Kupalab's buildout
By Gillian Kupakuwana, MD, PhDPhysician-scientist and Kupalab principal investigator.A Department of Medicine Research Grant and a SUNY Upstate Cancer Center Research Pilot Grant will help hire our first postdoc, equip the lab and generate pilot data for our first external funding applications.
Gillian recently received two internal research awards: a Department of Medicine Research Grant for 2025–26 and a SUNY Upstate Cancer Center Research Pilot Grant for 2026–27.
The awards come at an important stage in building a research program focused on myeloid cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. Early support helps create room to develop questions, methods, and collaborations that can move a new research program forward.
We’re grateful to the Department of Medicine and the Upstate Cancer Center for investing in this work, and to the wider Upstate community whose support is helping the program take shape, including colleagues in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and the Upstate Foundation, through colleague gifts and the Beers Fund. Together, this support will allow us to hire our first postdoc, equip the lab and generate pilot data for our first external funding applications.