NIH-HHMI & Fogarty Fellowships
Pritzker Students Receive Prestigious NIH-HHMI & Fogarty International Fellowships
(L to R) Adam Kern,
Jasmine Lew,
Shashank Singha,
Amrita Arora,
Shaun Odell
Four third year Pritzker School of Medicine students recently received NIH-HHMI fellowhships to spend a year conducting mentored medical research. Adam Kern, Quan Lan (Jasmine) Lew and Shashank Sinha received the HHMI-NIH Research Scholars fellowship and will live for a year on the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Betheseda, Maryland working in NIH laboratories. Amrita Arora received the HHMI Research Training Fellowship which will support a year of dedicated research under the tutelage of Dr. Amy Paller, Chair of the Department of Dermatology and Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. Over 336 students from 96 different medical and dental schools applied for the NIH-HHMI 2007 competition.
Third year medical student Shaun Odell received the 2007–2008 FIC/Ellison Overseas Fellowship in Global Health and Clinical Research. The training program pairs U.S. graduate students with low-and middle income country students in the health sciences. Awardees receive one year of mentored clinical research training at an NIH-funded institution in a developing country. Shaun will work at the Chiang Mai University Research Institute for Health Sciences in Thailand, under the mentorship of Dr. Chris Beyrer of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. The focus of Shaun’s work will be HIV and STD transmission and prevention.
The FIC, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases jointly support the fellowship program. The Association of American Medical Colleges and the Association of Schools of Public Health provide program support for recruitment and review.
Shaun is a third generation University of Chicago medical student. He is the son of John Odell MD ‘79 and grandson of William Odell MD/SM ‘56.
