The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded more than $2 million in fellowships to 50 promising graduate students from 19 countries. The fellowships are designed to fund the students’ graduate education at a pivotal point in their scientific careers - a sink or swim time when they delve into intense laboratory research for their doctoral dissertations. “Being an international student, it is virtually impossible to find fellowships that fully support my stipend, not to mention the educational allowance that is a luxury for most Ph.D. students,” said Elisa Araldi a student from Italy who is studying macrophage biology at New York University’s Sackler Institute. She hopes her research will provide an innovative perspective on cellular interactions in tumors. “Part of my project involves very sophisticated and expensive experiments and this fellowship will allow me to perform more experiments, since my lab does not have to pay for my stipend. This award gives me confidence in the risky project that I am carrying on,” she said.
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