Student Spotlight

Student Spotlight · 01. March 2024
IBBR congratulates graduate student Rui Yin on her NCI-UMD fellowship, and for being awarded the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award by the University of Maryland Graduate School.

Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Akshay Patel Unlocks Mysteries of Cell Communications
Student Spotlight · 03. August 2023
Patel, who received the Andrew J. Moyer Outstanding Graduate Student Award, plans to pursue a career in the pharma or biotech industry.

Student Spotlight: CBMG Honors Symposium
Student Spotlight · 04. April 2023
Congratulations to the CBMG Honors Symposium Award Winners

Student Spotlight: Sarah Jeong
Student Spotlight · 21. December 2022
Congratulations to Sarah on being part of our 2022 Winter Graduates!

Student Spotlight: Shivangi Rastogi (Briken Lab)
Student Spotlight · 05. December 2022
Shivangi Rastogi is an Assistant Research Scientist in Dr. Volker Briken's lab. Congratulations to Shivangi! She won third place in the 2022 Postdoctoral Research Symposium hosted by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland on September 23, 2022. She has also been selected as one of the oral speakers (Microsymposisa talks) at the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) 2022 Conference.

Kevin Tu Named as one of the 2022 Goldwater Scholars
Student Spotlight · 01. April 2022
“As a researcher, Kevin is highly motivated to take on complex problems,” Dinman said. “The project he’s working on will mark the first demonstration through which a disruption in a -1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting signal leads to the development of a specific human disease. In addition to his keen scientific insight and fierce devotion to research, he has demonstrated his versatility and innovative approach as an educator.”