Wright receives COM Predoctoral Fellowship Award

Griffin Wright, a third-year student in the Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program at the University of South Alabama, works with Natalie Gassman, Ph.D., in her lab at USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute. 

Griffin Wright, a student in the Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program at the University of South Alabama, is the recipient of the USA College of Medicine Predoctoral Fellowship Award.

He is working with Natalie Gassman, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology and cell biology at the USA College of Medicine and a cancer researcher at USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute, to study the response of DNA repair pathways following environment exposures.

“My research primarily focuses on the regulation of a major pathway of DNA repair, base excision repair (BER), in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC),” Wright said. “A greater understanding of how BER is regulated in TNBC would improve treatment selection for the disease.”

Wright said he is grateful for this award, as it allows him to attend an advanced training course focusing on experimental models of human cancer at Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor, Maine.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the Auburn University College of Agriculture in 2017.