The Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded 17 pilot grants of $2,000 each to SOM Biomedical PhD students. The goal of these grants is to support our students in scientific and educational efforts to bolster their graduate training experiences. These awards will help further research in a broad array of topics including antibiotic natural evolution, prostate cancer, vascular malformations, and more.
Next deadline for student pilot grants is March 15.
Congratulations to the Awardees!
Rebecca Gibson | Pediatrics, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Mentor: Priya Kishnani, MD, MBBS, Chen Family Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Bach Nguyen | Biochemistry
Mentor: Kenichi Yokoyama, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Christopher Bassil | Medical Scientist Training Program
Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Maurice Bukenya | Immunology
Mentor: Georgia Tomaras, PhD, Professor in Surgery
Isabel Kenny | University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Mentor: David Sherwood, PhD, Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor
Federica Mosti | Neurobiology, Cell & Molecular Biology
Mentor: Debra Silver, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mandy Wang | Pharmacology, Cell & Molecular Biology
Mentor: Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Wei Zhu | Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Mentor: Raluca Gordân, PhD, Associate Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Luke Wachsmuth | Pathology
Mentor: Peter Fecci, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery
Carly Williams | Biochemistry
Mentor: Pei Zhou, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry
Nicholas Brose | Cell Biology
Mentor: Cagla Eroglu, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology
Helen Rueckert | Cell Biology
Mentor: Matthew Hilton, PhD, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
Jennifer Liu | Pathology
Mentor: Laurie Sanders, PhD, Associate Professor in Neurology
Changxin Wan | Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Mentor: Zhicheng Ji, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Angela Rivera | Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Yunsol (Kelly) Jo | Pathology
Mentor: Jung Wook Park, PhD, Rollie Assistant Professorship of Correlative Pathology
Evon Debose-Scarlett | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Mentor: Doug Marchuk, PhD, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology