Professor Diane Cabelof receives Career Development Chair Award
Associate Professor Diane Cabelof has received a 2014 Career Development Chair Award.
Career Development Chairs are awarded to as many as seven recently tenured faculty as part of the university's program to support the teaching and research endeavors of faculty members in the developmental stages of their scholarly careers. Since 1982, 217 university faculty members have held Career Development Chairs. The Career Development Chairs were established by generous grants to the Wayne State Fund and provide recipients financial support, encouragement and recognition at a critical time in their careers.
Dr. Cabelof received her award at the WSU Academic Recognition Ceremony on April 24, 2014.
According to the program, Professor Diane Cabelof is emerging as a leading investigator in a unique niche within the broader fields of DNA repair, nutrition and age-related diseases. Her research explores why the DNA repair response is compromised with aging and the impact this has on age-associated diseases. Cabelof's research addresses an interesting and very important node in current research on aging and links nutritional status with aging and diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome.
With her unique research focus, Cabelof has been able to acquire multiple research grants to fund her lab, including an American Federation of Aging Research grant and an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award - both highly competitive national research grants - and an NIH R21 grant. She is also developing an idea in collaboration with well-renowned researcher Thomas Kunkel to evaluate the importance of ribonucleotides in the genome instability associated with aging.
Cabelof has risen successfully to the challenge of developing a research program, and the Career Development Chair Award will allow her to further develop her research goals and objectives, solidify her move into this paradigm-shifting area, and fully develop a potentially career-changing collaboration.