Graduate Students Win Fellowship Awards

Two students supervised by Professor Martin Yarmush have been awarded graduate fellowships from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research. Nripen Sharmahas been awarded a 2-year, $60,000 graduate fellowship for his project, entitled, Metabolic Engineering of Stem Cell Differentiation into Oligodendrocytes. Lulu Li has been awarded a 1-year, $30,000 graduate fellowship for her project entitled, Tunable Electrostatic Pulses to Modulate Stem Cell Differentiation into Neuronal Lineage Cells.