Grad student Sequin named Med Into Grad Scholar

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Emily Sequin was recently named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Med Into Grad Scholar.  The one-year fellowship is designed to prepare pre-doctoral students to conduct research at the interface of basic biomedical science and clinical medicine. Graduates of this program are expected to expedite the clinical application of discoveries in biomedical science to improve human health and to create future successful research partnerships with physicians.

During her time as an HHMI Med Into Grad Scholar, Sequin, a student of Professor Vish Subramaniam, will have the opportunity to work closely with surgical oncologists, pathologists, and other engineers to use the electromagnetic method of cancer detection developed during her Masters research to distinguish between cancerous tissue and healthy tissue and image surgically excised tissue for the quantitative determination of surgical margins. These images will then be validated against pathological analysis. She also plans to develop a fundamental understanding of the effects of morphological heterogeneity of tissue on the electromagnetic probe measurements using fresh cadaver tissue samples, pathological analysis, and supporting computational models of the measurement process. 

Ohio State was recently selected as one of 12 new academic institutions offering an HHMI Med into Grad Program. Of the OSU population, Sequin was chosen as one of six scholars performing research in the fields of genetics, microbial biology, biomedical engineering, RNA biology, neuroscience or computational biology.

Category: Graduate