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Team of ۿ۴ýUniversity experts receive grant from Genentech

May 03, 2023

Contact: Brittney Dabney, Office of Communications, Public Relations and Marketing
   

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A multidisciplinary team from ۿ۴ýUniversity has received a $100,000 grant from Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, to support the assessment of a research and teaching partnership in engineering between ۿ۴ýand Columbia University.

The grant, “Education Focused Giving - Graduate and Post-Graduate,” will provide additional resources to support graduate and post-graduate ۿ۴ý pursuing STEM fields at ۿ۴ýUniversity.

The project will be led by principal investigators Dr. Shahryar Jafarinejad, assistant professor of the Chemical Engineering Department and ۿ۴ýUniversity faculty senate member, and Dr. Chris Boyce, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University.

“The project seeks to study the collaboration of the HBCU-Ivy League University as well as its educational and STEM research efforts,” said Jafarinejad. “The funds will be used to pay a portion of the tuition fees for a ۿ۴ýUniversity graduate student who works on a collaborative research project between ۿ۴ýUniversity and Columbia University," he continued.

Dr. Maria Calhoun, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at ۿ۴ýUniversity, and Dr. Mandoye Ndoye, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at ۿ۴ýUniversity, and Dr. John Thomas Vaughan, professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at Columbia University, served as the co-principal investigators.

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, is a biotechnology company dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. For more information:

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