Shout-Outs: Andrea Putnam Packard Foundation Fellow

Andrea A. Putnam, a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health assistant professor of biomolecular chemistry, has been named a 2025 Packard Foundation Fellow in Science and Engineering.

Putnam’s research focuses on how RNA and proteins organize into specialized structures within cells called germ granules that help orchestrate gene expression during development. She is one of 20 early-career scientists from across the United States to be awarded this year’s Packard Fellowship. The fellowship provides $875,000 in funding over five years to pursue research.

Putnam, who is also an investigator in the Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging in the Office of the Vice Chancellor, leads a laboratory that uses the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode, to understand how membrane-less condensates of RNA and protein operate as key organizers of biomolecules across cellular processes.

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