New Gilliam Fellows
Kelly M. Cadenas
University of California, Los Angeles
Scott S. Chilton
Harvard University
Dania Daye
University of Pennsylvania
Ryan T. Dosumu-Johnson
Harvard University
Marty A. Fernandez
Harvard University
Sacha L. Prashad
University of California, Los Angeles
Angelica M. Riestra
University of California, Los Angeles
Krystal R. St. Julien
Stanford University
Steven Tuyishime
University of Pennsylvania
Dania Daye, who came to the United States from Lebanon, wants to design new, noninvasive imaging techniques to improve medical testing. Steven Tuyishime is inspired by the prevalence of malaria in his family’s native Rwanda to work on a vaccine for the disease.
These are just two of the exceptional students awarded Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study in 2009. Spurred by the number of high-quality applicants, HHMI expanded the program to nine fellowships this year—up from five in previous years.
Gilliam fellows are students from groups underrepresented in the sciences or of disadvantaged backgrounds who have worked in the labs of top HHMI scientists and are committed to pursuing a doctoral degree in science. HHMI established the fellowships in 2004 in honor of the late James H. Gilliam Jr., a charter Trustee of the Institute who spent his life nurturing excellence and diversity in education and science.
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