Eric Yang (BME graduate student) was recently awarded a Laurance M. and Dorothy L. Leeds Fellowship/Scholarship for the 2006 academic year. Eric�s research focuses on modeling of corticosteroid pharmacogenomics in rat liver. David Simcha (BME senior undergraduate) received an award from the Aresty Research Center in support of his undergraduate research titled �Computational Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding Sites�. Pegy Foteinou (BME graduate student) received a travel award from the Society of Biological Engineering to present her work on the �Transcriptional Analysis of the Genome-Wide Response of Leukocytes in an in Vivo Human Model of Systemic Inflammation� at the First International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering in Coronado Island, California. Eric, David and Pegy all work under the direction of Professor Ioannis Androulakis.