Pritzker News
Four Pritzker Students Receive HHMI Fellowships
May 3, 2007 — Four Pritzker School of Medicine medical students just received Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowships to spend a year conducting mentored medical research. Third year medical students, Adam Kern, Quan Lan (Jasmine) Lew and Shashank Sinha received the HHMI-NIH Research Scholars fellowship and will live for a year on the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Betheseda, Maryland working in NIH laboratories.
(L to R) Amrita Arora, Adam Kern, Quan Lan (Jasmine) Lew, and Shashank Sinha
In addition, third year medical student Amrita Arora received the HHMI Research Training Fellowship which will support a year of dedicated research under the tutelage of Dr. Amy Paller, Chair of the Department of Dermatology and Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University.
Over 336 students from 96 different medical and dental schools applied for the 2007 competition. The Research Scholars Program and the Medical Fellows Program are part of a larger effort by HHMI to integrate basic research and clinical experience.
- For a listing of other research fellowships available to medical students, please visit the Research Funding Opportunities page.
