A biotechnology predoctoral training grant from the NIH National Institute for General Medical Science pays stipend, tuition and fees for nine predoctoral fellows, with the Duke Graduate School contributing a tenth fellowship for a non-US citizen.
Fellows
Connor Beck
Connor earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2017. He is a PhD student in Dr. Yiyang Gong’s Lab.
Ellery Jones
Ellery received her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Miami in 2018. She is a PhD student studying cardiovascular disease in Dr. George Truskey's lab.
Rache;l Katz
Rachel graduated with her B.S. in Biological Engineering and a minor in Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. She is a BME PhD student in Dr. Jennifer West’s lab studying biomaterials for vascularized tumor/macrophage models.
David Kinnamon
David earned his BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas. He spent two years working with a Texas-based start-up company before joining the Chilkoti Group as a PhD Student.
Evan Kurt
Evan graduated with his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Villanova University in 2017, followed by his M.S. in Biochemical Engineering in 2018 at Villanova. He is currently a PhD student in the Segura Lab, studying methods for gene therapy from hydrogel scaffolds.
Shaun Sze-Xian Lim
Shaun earned a BA (Honors) in Engineering, with a specialization in Bioengineering, from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 2014. He started his MD/PhD training at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, in 2015 and is currently pursing his PhD in Xiling Shen’s Lab.
Jeff Motschman
Jeff earned a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013. He then worked for Dolomite Microfluidics from 2014-2016. There he focused on the development and commerclization of droplet microfluidic systems for applications in single cell analysis and drug delivery. He is a Mechanical Engineering PhD student in Benjamin Yellen’s Lab
Madeleine Sitton
Madeleine earned her BS in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. She is a PhD student in Charlie Gersbach’s lab working on developing CRISPR treatments for monogenic diseases.
Arnold Tao
Arnold earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. He is a PhD student in Brenton Hoffman’s Lab.