May 19, 2008
BioE Graduate Student David Breslauer was among eleven graduate students from eight University of California campuses selected to receive a $50,000 GREAT training grant, intended to hasten innovations in a variety of biotechnology-related fields. David was chosen based on his work developing biologically inspired microfluidic spider silk spinning for high performance biomaterials, under the sponsorship of Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee.The highly competitive Graduate Research and Education in Adaptive bioTechnology (GREAT) Training Grants total more than half a million dollars and are awarded by the UC Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program. The program funds a total of 22 new and continuing graduate students per year with the grants, which are among the highest individual awards given for graduate education and training anywhere in the nation.
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