Sept. 12, 2008

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Students Win Fellowships for Research and Education

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected four HMS students and one HSDM student for its Research Fellowship Training Program, which allows students to conduct research for a year at an institution of their choice. HMS students Lior Braunstein, Ann Cai, Guadalupe Villarreal, and Corinna Zygourakis and HSDM student Rosalyn Sulyanto will all remain at HMS and affiliated hospitals for their fellowship year. Two additional students from other universities have also chosen to spend their fellowship year at HMS.

Other students who have recently won awards are Stanley Vance and Jeffrey Dixson. Vance has received both a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from the Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships and a Fullbright U.S. Student Scholarship to work with young patients with gender identity disorder at the Amsterdam Gender Clinic for Adolescents and Children. Dixson, also a recipient of a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, will travel to Uganda with the Association of Volunteers for International Service to develop skills in clinical work and health systems research and to gain experience working in complex humanitarian emergencies.

In addition, two HMS students have been named Paul and Daisy Soros Fellows for 2008, out of 30 fellows selected nationwide. The fellowships are given to naturalized citizens, resident aliens, and the children of naturalized citizens to help them pursue graduate education and prepare them for leadership opportunities in a variety of fields.

Robert Koffie moved from Ghana to attend Indiana University as an undergraduate and just completed his first year at HST. While living in Ghana, Koffie volunteered with Doctors Without Borders, helping to care for residents of Ghana and Togo. As an undergraduate, he volunteered for the Red Cross at blood drives and interned in the Emergency Department at Bloomington Hospital. He plans to study proteins implicated in neurodegenerative diseases and pursue a career in academic medicine.

Vijay Yanamadala, whose parents emigrated from India, has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Harvard University and has also just finished his first-year at HST. He has conducted research on hypertension and polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and has published papers as the first author on these topics in scientific journals. Yanamadala wants to work in academic medicine, developing new technologies to study the molecular mechanisms of diseases such as PKD.

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