Deena Snoke, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Michael Toth, Ph.D., Laboratory and a UVM Cancer Center member, has been busy.

She was recently selected for the prestigious K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. This highly competitive grant, given to strong postdoctoral scientists to facilitate their transition to an independent, tenure-track faculty position, comes with up to five years of funding.

Snoke also was one of eight postdoctoral fellows—and the first fellow invited from the University of Vermont—to participate in the ninth annual Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) training workshop held in June in Connecticut. Hosted by Yale’s School of Public Health and funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute, the workshop brought together 25 early-career basic, clinical, and population science researchers and invited leaders in the field to speak on the examination of physical activity, nutrition, and body composition across the cancer continuum.

In addition, she was recently awarded the Postdoctoral Research Excellence Award by the University of Vermont Cancer Center. This competitive, merit-based award, given in recognition and support of outstanding postdoctoral fellows engaged in cancer-related research, provides $10,000 per year for three years to be used at the fellow’s discretion in support of their research, training, or professional development.

Learn more about Deena Snoke and her work in a Q&A by Katelyn Queen, Ph.D.