Hoshi University of Tokyo, Japan has just announced that Kristy Wood, a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, will receive a Hoshi-Toray Industries Fellowship that will allow her to perform part of her PhD in Japan.
Hoshi University of Tokyo, Japan has just announced that Kristy Wood, a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, will receive a Hoshi-Toray Industries Fellowship that will allow her to perform part of her PhD in Japan. Wood's fellowship will allow her to spend two months at the Hoshi University in Tokyo investigating mechanisms of protein transport across epithelial cells in vivo. In her thesis, Kristy Wood attempts to identify new mechanistic routes for improved transport of therapeutic proteins such as insulin for treatment of diabetes and recombinant human interferon-beta for treatment of multiple sclerosis. A graduate of the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Wisconsin, she has been a PhD student at UT since January 2003. Her UT research is sponsored by a grant from NIH.
