F31 Award Announcement!
The National Institutes of Health awarded GSBSE Ph.D. candidate Amanda Ignacz the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award for her work with neuromuscular disease. Amanda is the first graduate student working in Orono at UMaine to receive this award. This nationally competitive award honors and invests in pre-doctoral students by helping them obtain research training while conducting their dissertation research.
Through her research, she hopes to identify driving mechanisms for neuromuscular disease progression and develop therapies to improve the lives and outcomes of people diagnosed with it.
We are excited to see how Amanda continues her impactful research under this award.
Read the full story, written by Daniel Timmermann, on the UMaine Research News website.