Pharm-Tox students receive fellowships
Two College of Pharmacy students have received predoctoral fellowships from the Division of Medicinal Chemistry at the American Chemical Society. ACS awards stipends of $24,000 each to nine graduate students nationwide who are performing research in medicinal chemistry.
Chris Cabello (at left in photo) and Jamin Steffen, fourth-year graduate students in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, will be sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies Novartis and Amgen. Cabello, who is advised by Georg Wondrak, is working on a project that involves the design of novel compounds that have the ability to activate cellular defense mechanisms through Nrf2. Steffen, whose advisor is Myron Jacobson, is working to identify new targets in cancer therapy.
“I’m excited about receiving this award since it will allow me to increase exposure to my research when the results are presented at the national meeting,” Cabello says.
The stipend also covers a trip to the ACS National Meeting in Boston in the fall of 2010.
Posted Sept. 9, 2009
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