Francis Annan. Photo by Mathew Burciaga
Congratulations to Rausser College professors Francis Annan and Denis Titov on being selected as 2024 Society of Hellman Fellows!
Established by the late F. Warren and Chris Hellman in 1995 and supported by the Hellman Family since its establishment, the award funds early-career faculty members who show capacity for great distinction in their research. Each fellow may receive awards of up to $60,000 to support any research-related needs, including assistantships, equipment, or travel.
Annan is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural & Resources Economics whose research focuses on digital financial markets, public distribution programs, insurance, and firms in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. His fellowship project will investigate firm misconduct and how monitoring technologies strengthen the Ghanaian government’s capacity to directly redistribute transport costs in a very large public program for petroleum products.
Photo couretsy of Denis Titov.
Titov is an assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology whose lab uses computational and experimental approaches to expand quantitative understanding of human metabolic pathway regulation and decipher the molecular basis of aging. Titov’s project aims to investigate whether activation of hexokinase and phosphofructokinase—two enzymes involved in glycolysis—can selectively kill cancer cells addicted to the Warburg Effect.
Visit the Society of Hellman Fellows website to learn more about the programs and each recipient.