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  • Alex Jiao, UW Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate

Alex Jiao receives NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship

Alex Jiao, a fifth year Ph.D. student in Assistant Professor Deok-Ho Kim's lab has received a NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. Alex's research project is entitled "Nanoscale 3-D Cell Sheet Engineering: A Platform for Studying the Cardiac Microenvironment and Tissue-Level Heart Structure-Function Relationships."