By Marty Trieschmann
Jan. 6, 2022 | Kirk West, Ph.D., a Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute researcher, is the first UAMS scientist to be awarded the prestigious American Cancer Society (ACS) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Only 14% of ACS fellowships are funded from a nationwide pool of applicants. The three-year fellowship will help fund West’s research on the role of LC8-TLK1/2 axis in the DNA repair pathway in the ACS-funded laboratory of his mentor, Justin Leung, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology.