Student/Post-doc News

BME Student Receives MBSTP Fellowship

Pete Galie, Ph.D. student in BME, is the recipient of a Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program (MBSTP) Fellowship. Pete is working with BME associate professor Jan Stegemann. This fellowship covers most of Petes stipend, tuition, and fees for the 2009-10 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 July 16, 2009, 1:34 pm