Aziz Wins Sarnoff Fellowship

Durham, N.C. (August 2008) -- Hamza Aziz, a graduate medical student at Duke University School Medicine, has received the Sarnoff Fellowship from the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Aziz completed his third year research project with Aimee Zaas, MD, Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, and John Perfect, MD as mentors. He has worked on a project developing gene expression signatures of a fungal infection (invasive candidiasis) in a mouse model and is currently validating the findings. He has received an IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America) Student Travel Award to present his research at the 48th Annual ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual meeting in Washington D.C. in October 2008.

Aziz will take an additional year to pursue more laboratory research with the fellowship.

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The Sarnoff Fellowship Program offers medical students enrolled in accredited U.S. medical schools the opportunity to spend a year conducting intensive work in a biomedical research laboratory in the United States, other than the medical school in which they are enrolled.

Fellows are selected on the basis of a national competition. Sarnoff seeks individuals with demonstrated intellectual and academic achievement, as well as leadership ability. The Sarnoff Foundation funds up to 20 Fellows per year.
 
Visit the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation web site for detailed information about the Sarnoff Fellowship Program.