New York-based cosmetics brand Estee Lauder will be funding an annual fellowship at the University of California–Irvine (UCI) to study how the environment and human behavior–such as smoking and sleep–affect our genes, also known as epigenetics.
According to Dr. Michael J. Stamos, dean of the UCI School of Medicine, the fellowship will enable Ph.D. candidates to engage in “path breaking” research in the field.
“We look forward to the deeply impactful discoveries that will take shape through the Estée Lauder Epigenetics Fellowship,” Stamos said in an Oct. 24 statement.
According to UCI, the fellowship will expand upon previous collaborations between the cosmetics company and the late Paolo Sassone-Corsi Ph.D., the director of UCI’s Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism before his death several years ago….