Ranjodh Singh, who is completing his second year as a medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College, has been awarded the 2014 Paul Calabresi Medical Student Research Fellowship from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (PhRMA Foundation). The fellowship is awarded to medical students pursuing a pharmacology research effort; Singh’s project is "Molecularly-Defined Combinatorial Targeted Therapy in a Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Mouse Model Using Convection-Enhanced Delivery."
Singh will conduct his research full time during a year off from medical school in 2014-15. He will be working in Dr. Mark Souweidane’s laboratory, which is part of the Children’s Brain Tumor Project and is focused on finding new therapeutic approaches to Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, or DIPG. Singh has also been awarded a St. Baldrick's Summer Fellowship for his DIPG project, so he will work with Dr. Souweidane starting immediately and throughout the next academic year, returning to his studies in 2015.
