Faculty and student recipients of the 2018 John J. Kopchick Awards were honored at a ceremony Nov. 10 in Nelson Commons. Photo Credit: Hannah Ruhoff/Ohio University
Four Biological Sciences graduate students were among those awarded John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology/Translational Biomedical Sciences Research Fellowship Awards.
The award provides up to $10,000 for Ph.D. and D.O./Ph.D. students in the Molecular and Cellular Biology and Translational Biomedical Sciences programs to support translational biomedical research, with an additional $5,000 for an off-campus internship.
Fifteen Ohio University students and faculty members have received funding for their health and medical research from the John J. Kopchick Awards. The program will provide a total of $75,984 in grants and fellowships during its 2018-19 cycle to advance research on topics such as type 1 diabetes, muscular function in older adults, cancer and bacterial infections. The recipients were recognized during a ceremony Nov. 10 in Nelson Commons.
Alison Brittain, Biological Sciences/TBS program
- Mentor: John Kopchick
- Title of Project: The Effect of Podocyte-specific Growth Hormone Receptor Gene-deletion in the Diabetic Mouse
- Amount: $10,000
David Cottrill, Biomedical Sciences/MCB program
- Mentor: Xiaozhuo Chen
- Title of Project: Characterization of α-PGG and 6CI-TGQ as Pancreatic β-cell Therapeutics
- Amount: $9,581
Silvana Duran Ortiz, Biological Sciences/MCB program
- Mentor: John Kopchick
- Title of Project: The Role of mTOR in Adult Growth Hormone (GH) Receptor Knockout Mice
- Amount: $9,445
Pratik Shriwas, Biological Sciences, MCB program
- Mentor: Xiaozhuo Chen
- Title of Project: Characterization of Pan-anti-GLUT Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents (internship only)
- Amount: $4,958
More information about the John J. Kopchick Awards is available on the Research Division funding page.
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