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Posted 9-7-00
CLEVELAND -- Andrew Conery, who received his B.S. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1999, was among a group of 162 talented young scientists to receive a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship. The award will support Conery's Ph.D. work in molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley.
While at CWRU, Conery did his honor's thesis work in the laboratory of Vernon Anderson, associate professor of biochemistry. After completing his doctoral studies, Conery plans to teach and conduct research at the university level.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute -- one of the country's largest philanthropies -- awarded Conery one of its 92 Predoctoral Fellowships. This honor support students for up to five years with an annual $18,000 stipend during their full-time pursuit of a Ph.D. or Sc.D. The fellow's institution receives a $16,000 cost-of-living educational allowance. The program currently supports more than 400 graduate students at an annual expenditure of more than $14 million.
"These outstanding young scientists will be trained at the frontiers of biomedical research," said Joseph Perpich, HHMI's vice president for grants and special programs, "building on our knowledge from the human genome project and using our remarkable ability to manipulate genes."
He added, "We look forward to learning of their progress in studying topics of great biological and medical importance, including control of cell growth and death, immunity, nerve cell function, and enzyme structure-function modeling."
The fellows are also studying issues such as AIDS, parasitic diseases, epilepsy, and rare developmental or genetic disorders.
For information about applying for these fellowships, visit http://www.hhmi.org/fellowships.