The Jan Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research (JCC Fund) has named Ke Liang one of its 2026 Fellows. The JCC Fund advances pioneering science by supporting postdoctoral fellows conducting fundamental research on cancer and other human diseases.
As a JCC Fellow in the Rapoport Lab, Ke will investigate protein import into peroxisomes. Peroxisomes are unusual because they can import fully folded proteins using receptors that shuttle in and out and must be extracted and recycled. Ke aims to clarify how these steps work. Because failures in peroxisomal import cause serious diseases with few or no treatments, her work could also point toward new therapeutic ideas.