Graduate students receive heart association fellowships

Zeynep Yurtsever, a biochemistry graduate student, and Daniel Kober, a microbiology graduate student, both in the laboratory of Thomas Brett, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have received two-year, $52,000 fellowships from the American Heart Association.

Yurtsever’s research is titled “Mechanism of CLCA-mediated Regulation of Ca-activated Cl Channels”; Kober’s is titled “Structural and Functional Consequences of TREM-2 Mutants Linked to Neuroinflammation.”