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Cassandra Extavour Draft
Some of Extavour's more recent research was conducted in July of 2017 on how bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) help to induce primordial germ cells (PGCs) in the early stages of embryo development. Extavour and her colleagues were able to specify two BMPs, BMP8b and BMP4, that help induce PGCs. This is significant because PGCs are cells that develop during embryogenesis in animals that later become spermatocytes and oocytes, or the sex cells of the animal.

Awards and Nominations
-Awarded the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award as an Assistant Professor from the Ellison Medical Foundation

-Nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, an award given to one senior professor, one junior professor, and one teaching fellow at Harvard University each year

-Nominated for Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering Mentoring Award in 2012

-Recipient of an EMBO Short Term Fellowship in 2001