Kira Young, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Studies hematopoiesis and the molecular basis of aging in the blood.

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Grants, honors and accomplishments

2012 - 1st Place,Graduate Student Poster Award, NAVBO, Genetics and Genomics of Vascular Disease

2012 - Student travel award, NAVBO, Genetics and Genomics of Vascular Disease

2006-2009 - NSF-IGERT Functional Genomics Trainee

2001 - George Mitchell Peace Scholarship

1998-2003 - Pulp and Paper Scholarship

1998-2003 - Top Scholar Award

Press ReleaseAugust 01, 2018
A RACIPE for success
New five-year, $2.2M outstanding investigator grant to Mingyang Lu will support systems biology algorithm approach.
Research HighlightJuly 23, 2018
$2.4 million grant to JAX for strategies to extend healthy function of blood and immune systems during aging
The five-year grant enables studies exploring ways to boost the hematopoietic system for better regenerative capacity, immune cell function during aging.
- Aging
- Aging
Research HighlightJune 28, 2018
How do cancer cells achieve immortality?
Cancer cell immortality leads to massive tumors, metastatic spread, and potentially re-emergence. Researchers are working to determine how cancer cells achieve immortality.
- Cancer/Tumors
- Cancer
Press ReleaseJune 26, 2018
JAX receives $1.5 million for glaucoma research
Gareth Howell named Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Chair for Glaucoma Research

Research HighlightJuly 30, 2018
Immune system 2.0: Can we re-engineer the human immune response?
JAX researchers have demonstrated the ability to target and disrupt specific genes and/or alter their expression levels, which has important implications for both immunology research and clinical treatments.
Research HighlightJuly 12, 2018
The distinct forms of an important genomic disruption
A new paper further explains the genomic disruption known as the tandem duplicator phenotype (TDP), a common attribute in some of the most deadly cancers of women.
Minute to UnderstandingJune 28, 2018
What is epigenetics?
Learn how epigenetic changes can affect an individual without physically changing their DNA sequence.
- Aging
- Genetics and Genomics
Research HighlightJune 21, 2018
Finding the genes controlling ovarian reserve could hold key to better female fertility care
Jackson Laboratory Assistant Professor Ewelina Bolcun-Filas, Ph.D., is looking at how multiple genetic factors regulating oocyte development determine the differences in each woman’s ovarian reserve.