{"id":11206,"date":"2017-11-07T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2017-11-07T10:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:38:58","slug":"alex-komin-awarded-pre-doctoral-nih-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/news\/alex-komin-awarded-pre-doctoral-nih-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Komin awarded pre-doctoral NIH fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Materials Science and Engineering graduate student Alex Komin was recently awarded the very competitive Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (Kirschstein-NRSA)<\/a>. <\/span><\/span>The funding institute for the award is the National Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke (NINDS). <\/span>The success rate for obtaining an F31 award was 23.8% (for all NIH institutes) in 2016 and 21% for NINDS. The Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award is a program that aims to help predoctoral graduate students “develop into a productive, independent research scientists, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research”. Alex Komin’s project will involve studying new ways to deliver therapeutic agents.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In his project proposal, Alex wrote, “Many brain disorders, such as brain cancer and Alzheimer’s, lack drug therapy because drugs are unable to cross the blood-brain barrier and reach the brain. We identified a peptide (a short polymer of amino acids) that is able to deliver a drug-like molecule across a laboratory model of the blood-brain barrier. We propose to understand more about what gives this peptide the barrier-penetrating properties with the long-term goal of using this information to develop barrier-penetrating peptides for drug delivery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Alex Komin will be working under Dr. Kalina Hristova<\/a> and Dr. Peter Searson<\/a>. Dr. Hristova’s lab will provide expertise in peptide-cell membrane interactions and the development of peptide-based drug delivery systems. 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