Student/Post-doc News

BME Ph.D. Student Amy Hsiao Receives MBSTP Fellowship

Amy Hsiao, Ph.D. student in BME, is the recipient of a Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program (MBSTP) Fellowship. Amy is working with BME professor Shuichi Takayama. This fellowship covers most of Amy's stipend, tuition, and fees for the 2008-09 school year. Amy also received this fellowship for the 2007-08 school year.

The MBSTP leverages the strength's of Michigan's engineering, basic sciences, and biomedical research community to create Ph.D. level scientists with cross-training in microfluidics and biological research. Their intent is for students leaving the program to be able to identify and define biomedical problems and then design and implement microfluidics tools that can be used to solve those problems. They train students to communicate and collaborate across these disciplines and ultimately lead interdisciplinary research teams of the future. Such students are - and will continue to be - in high demand by instrumentation, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as research universities.

Posted on June 26, 2008, 11:28 am