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Recipients of the 2009 APS/NIDDK Minority Travel
Fellowship Awards for Experimental Biology 2009
April 18-22, New Orleans, LA

Since its inception in 1987, the APS/NIDDK Minority Travel Fellowship Program has awarded more than 730 travel fellowships to over 500 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students and to faculty members at minority institutions. It is an effective program model that capitalizes on a critical impact point where professional societies can make a real difference -- catalyzing the development of important professional networks for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral minority students in physiology and biomedical research that can increase their retention in these fields.

The APS, on behalf of the Porter Physiology Development Committee, is pleased to congratulate the following awardees of the APS/NIDDK Minority Travel Fellowship Awards to attend Experimental Biology 2009:

 Adebowale Adebiyi, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

 Imo Akpan, University of Pennsylvania

 Gustavo Ares, Henry Ford Hospital

 Sydella Blatch, National Institutes of Health

 Krystal Brinson, Medical College of Georgia

 Raquel Brown, Southern Illinois University

 Heidy Contreras, University of California, Irvine

 Zeilieann Craig, University of Arizona

 John Dubinion, University of Mississippi Medical Center

 Jorge Gamboa, University of Kentucky

 Fernanda Giachini, University of Sao Paulo / Medial College of Georgia

 Shea Gilliam-Davis, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

 Albert Gonzales, Colorado State University

 Helmut Gottlieb, University of the Incarnate Word

 Dolores Guest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 Andres Hernandez, Auburn University

 Marcela Herrera, Henry Ford Hospital

 Michael Hoffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Debra Irsik, University of Nebraska Medical Center

 Erin Keen-Rhinehart, Harbor UCLA Medical Center

 Anna Leal, UT Southwestern

 Natasha Lugo-Escobar, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus

 Jeffrey Mason, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

 Cathy Moore, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 Norma Ojeda, University of Mississippi Medical Center

 Karl Pendergrass, Wake Forest University

 Arthur Pope, University of Florida

 Clintoria Richards-Williams, University of Alabama at Birmingham

 Lilliana Sanchez, University of New Mexico

 Olga Santiago, Ponce School of Medicine

 Aerial Singleton, New Mexico State University

 Mesia Steed, Wake Forest University

 Carmen Troncoso Brindeiro, University of Nebraska Medical Center

 Carla Trujillo, New Mexico State University

 Johana Vallejo-Elias, Midwestern University - Arizona Osteopathic School of  Medicine

 Vabren Watts, Meharry Medical College

 Letitia Weigand, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

 Leslie White, University of Florida-College of Medicine

 Justin Wilson, Howard University