Chantell Evans

Chantell Evans, postdoctoral fellow in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was named a Hanna Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The inaugural fellowship was awarded to 15 early-career scientists.

As a Hanna Gray Fellow, Dr. Evans will receive up to $1.4 million in funding over eight years, as well as mentoring and active involvement within the HHMI medical community.

Dr. Evans works in the laboratory of Erika Holzbaur, the William Maul Measey Professor of Physiology, where she studies mitochondria in neurons. She will receive support from the program from her early postdoctoral training through several years of a tenure-track faculty position.