{"id":256020,"date":"2025-12-29T11:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/256020\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:38:15","slug":"nunez-receives-vallee-scholar-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/256020\/","title":{"rendered":"Nu\u00f1ez receives Vallee Scholar Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Nu\u00f1ez, assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named a 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleefoundation.org\/news\/2025-vallee-scholars-appointed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vallee Scholar<\/a> by the Vallee Foundation. Established in 2013, the Vallee Scholar Awards program provides flexible, unrestricted funding to outstanding early-career investigators conducting basic biomedical research. According to the Vallee Foundation, Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s work on CRISPR-based genome and epigenome editing, \u201cexemplifies the program\u2019s mission to support bold, curiosity-driven science that pushes the boundaries of our understanding of human biology.\u201d He will receive $400,000 to support his research.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/480-Nunez.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>James Nu\u00f1ez<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s research focuses on understanding DNA methylation \u2014 the most abundant epigenetic modification in humans \u2014 and its roles in health, disease and aging. His team uses advanced CRISPR technologies and stem cell models of neuronal differentiation. They aim to uncover how unique DNA methylation patterns are established in neurons and how their misregulation contributes to human disease.<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez has received many awards, including a Hanna Gray Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Pew Biomedical Scholars Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Nu\u00f1ez, assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-256020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115802662971548733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}