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Grad students win AHA fellowships

4:29 p.m., June 28, 2005--UD graduate students Vesselina Cooke and Chad Blamey have been awarded predoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association. Each will receive $20,000 a year for two years.

Cooke, a fourth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Ulhas P. Naik, associate professor of biology and biochemistry, was awarded support for her project, “Role of Junctional Adhesion Molecule A in Growth Factor Induced Angiogenesis.”

Blamey, a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is doing his research as part of the Chemistry and Biology Interface Program and is jointly mentored by Brian J. Bahnson, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Naik. He received support for his research on "Structural and Functional Studies of Calcium and Integrin Binding Protein-1."

Both students also recently received Young Investigator Awards from the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis.

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