Yi Xing, Ph.D., a computational biologist with appointments in both the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the UI College of Engineering, has received a junior faculty award from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation. The one-year $60,000 grant was effective Oct. 1, and Xing is eligible for two additional years of funding.

Mallinckrodt grants support highly promising young investigators. The foundation is particularly interested in funding basic research that has the potential to impact disease.

Xing, who is an assistant professor of internal medicine and biomedical engineering, will use high-throughput sequencing to study how human genetic mutations disrupt splicing of messenger RNA molecules and cause diseases.