PGC Announces Student Pilot Grant Awardees

The Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded 11 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 breast, colorectal, and pediatric cancers; glioblastomas; salmonella; meniscus tissue repair; and human endogenous retroviruses, as well as developing new computational methods and sequencing samples.

Congratulations to the Awardees!

Emily Blandford | Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Anoop Patel, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Max Bucklan | University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Mentor: Simon Gregory, PhD, Margaret Harris an David Silverman Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, Neuro-Oncology

Tim Chen | Cell & Molecular Biology
Mentor: Amy McNulty, PhD, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery

Tania Guerrero-Altamirano | University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Mentor: Greg Wray, PhD, Professor of Biology

Abigail Jolley | Immunology
Mentor: Erika Crosby, PhD, Assistant Professor in Surgery

Aaron Koh | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Mentor: Julia Oh, PhD, Professor in Dermatology

Huan Liang | Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Mentor: Rohit Singh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Rachel Loney | University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Mentor: Dennis Ko, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Eric Nguyen | University Program in Genetics & Genomics
Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Floyd Rubonal | Cell & Molecular Biology
Mentor: Debra Silver, PhD, Professor in Cell Biology

Andrew Wang | Cell & Molecular Biology
Mentor: Zhao Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology