August 5, 2008
Daud Cole, a graduate student in Associate Professor Mike Jarstfer’s lab at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a predoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.
The fellowship is worth $27,481 per year for five years. Cole’s research project, titled “The structure of telomerase RNA during catalysis”, studies the structure of telomerase, an enzyme that plays a key role in cell division and aging.
Cole is a 2005 graduate of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology. He is pursuing his PhD in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine. He is working in Jarstfer’s lab as part of the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program, an interdisciplinary training program in which Jarstfer serves as a faculty member.
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