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Lo Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Stem Cell Research

The Fellowship

Yale Stem Cell Center is pleased to announce the 10th year of “The Lo Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Stem Cell Research” for outstanding senior graduate students pursuing stem cell research at Yale University. This one-year fellowship is made possible by a generous gift of endowment from the K.S. & Feili Lo Foundation. It is Yale Stem Cell Center’s most prestigious graduate award, and is designed to recognize and support graduate students with demonstrated passion and achievement in stem cell research. Two awards are given each year to partially defray each recipient’s stipend, with funding beginning on September 1, 2021.

Current Fellows

2021 Fellows

Kimberly Luttik

Kim Luttik is a graduate student in the laboratory of Janghoo Lim, in the Departments of Genetics and Neuroscience. Using mouse and human stem cell models, she is investigating the mechanisms in which astrocytes contribute towards neurodegeneration in spinocerebellar ataxias.

Yuqi Wang

Yuqi Wang, graduate student in the laboratory of Haifan Lin in the Department of Cell Biology, is studying the post-transcriptional regulation of mouse germline stem cells by MILI.