Ana Salazar-Puerta earns prestigious Presidential Fellowship

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Ana Salazar-Puerta has been selected as a 2022 Presidential Fellow, the most prestigious award given by The Ohio State University Graduate School.

Ana Salazar-Puerta

Presidential Fellowships honor the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project.

Salazar-Puerta is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, advised by Professor Natalia Higuita-Castro. She is working on developing cutting-edge treatments based on novel engineered extracellular vesicle (EV)-based nanotherapeutics for gene delivery and cell reprogramming. Her research aims to apply this approach to several conditions including pulmonary inflammation, calcific aortic stenosis, neurofibromatosis, and low back pain.

The financial support provided by the fellowship enables students to devote one year of full-time study to the completion of a dissertation or degree project.