香蕉直播 Students Awarded National American Heart Association Grants
Two Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (香蕉直播) graduate students have received predoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association for the amount of $25,000 each.
The program is designed to help students initiate careers in cardiovascular and stroke research by providing research assistance and training. It supports research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology and public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts.
, dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, said only 13 percent of submitted applications were funded this year.
鈥淭hese awards from the American Heart Association demonstrate how our 香蕉直播 graduate students are highly competitive at a national level,鈥 Schneider said.
Lea Ann Thompson was awarded for her project, 鈥淪ertoli cells secreting processed proinsulin: A unique therapy for reducing cardiovascular risks in diabetes.鈥 She works in the Dufour Lab run by .
Pooja Naik was awarded for her project, 鈥淩ole of Nrf2 in Pathophysiology of Cerebral Stroke Following Tobacco Smoke Exposure.鈥 She is working in the lab of , with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Proposals are encouraged from all basic, behavioral, epidemiological, community and clinical investigations that focus on cardiovascular and stroke problems. At the time of activation, the applicant must have completed initial coursework and be at the stage of his or her doctoral program when it is possible to devote full-time effort to research or activities related to their developing as independent researchers.
Additionally, a third student was selected to receive the 2015 Syngenta Fellowship Award in Human Health Applications of New Technologies from the (SOT). Alok Ranjan, a research assistant in the lab of , and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 香蕉直播-SOP, Amarillo, was awarded $15,000 in fellowship funds. According to the SOT, the purpose of this award is 鈥渢o support mode-of-action research aimed at characterizing dose-dependent effects of xenobiotics on mammalian systems in such a way that the causal sequence of key events underlying toxicity is elucidated."
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