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1st appeared 29 July 1998 13 Young UCSF Scientists Awarded Hughes Fellowships Thirteen UCSF graduate and medical students are among 159 of the outstanding young scientists who have recently been awarded fellowships by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) for advanced training in biomedical research. The predoctoral fellowships support students for up to five years while they pursue full-time study toward a Ph.D. Each award includes an annual stipend of $15,000 and a $15,000 cost-of-education allowance that goes to the fellowship institution. 1998 Predoctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences were awarded to the following UCSF graduate students: Cell and Developmental Biology -- Brian Robert Thornton and Annie Ening Tsong. Neuroscience and Physiology -- Anne Elizabeth Hodges, Mimi H.F. Kao, Michael Brian Orger, and Andrew Yong-Yi Tan. Structural Biology and Biochemistry -- Douglas K. Crawford, Sarah Ruth Green, and Peng-Chu Benjamin Tu. The Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students allow students to conduct biomedical research full time in a laboratory of their choice. Forty men and 17 women were selected this year, including four from UCSF. They are: Aloke Virmani Finn (research mentor David A. Dicheck), Gabriel Rodarte (research mentor Nina Agabian), Abigail Elizabeth Collins (research mentor Daniel H. Lowenstein), and Michael Cho (research mentors Thomas K. Hunt and Lester Packer). Each $26,000 award includes a $15,000 stipend, a $5,500 research allowance, and $5,500 to the fellowship institution. A medical research organization, HHMI is the nation's largest philanthropy. It employs scientists in cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, and structural biology. Hughes investigators conduct medical research in HHMI laboratories at 72 academic medical centers and universities nationwide. Links: |
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