Two trainees selected for Science in Motion Travel Awards - Sanford Burnham Prebys
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Two trainees selected for Science in Motion Travel Awards

AuthorGreg Calhoun
Date

August 29, 2025

The Sanford Burnham Prebys Center for Cardiovascular and Muscular Diseases recently announced the winners of the 2025 Science in Motion Travel Awards.

Gabriele Guarnaccia, a graduate student in the lab of Alessandra Sacco, PhD, will use his award to attend the 8th Cancer Cachexia Conference being held September 25–27, 2025, in Turin, Italy.

Luca Caputo, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Pier Lorenzo Puri, MD, was selected to attend Frontiers in Myogenesis: Innovations in Myogenesis, From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Interventions, which will be held October 6–11, 2025, in Sunriver, Oregon.

The goal of the Science in Motion Travel Awards is to support conference participation for emerging researchers in labs with a primary affiliation in the Center for Cardiovascular and Muscular Diseases.

Applications will open again on January 15, 2026.