The National Science Foundation conferred its Graduate Research Fellowship award on Aniqa Chowdhury, a graduate student in Dr. Delphine Dean’s lab. NSF conferred Honorable Mention on Timothy Samec, a graduate student in Dr. Angela Alexander-Bryant’s lab.
Dr. Sarah W. Harcum leads a team that has received $6 million from the National Science Foundation for research to help lower the cost of drugs that cost thousands of dollars per treatment.
The award will fund Dr. Vyavahare’s study of a theranostic approach to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, most aortic aneurysms are AAA. Although small AAA rarely rupture, AAA can grow very large without causing symptoms.
"There might not be many people who look like me in my degree program," she said. "But everyone is rooting for you here, and all the resources that are available mean you're never alone."
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