Cincinnati—Judy Chin, research assistant to Ram Singh, MD, professor
of medicine in the Division of Immunology, has received a Gini Finzi
Memorial Student Fellowship to work on project entitled "Construction
of Self Peptide-Encoding Minigenes to Induce Peptide-Specific CD8 &
T Cells that Suppress Autoimmunity in Lupus Mice" from the Lupus
Foundation of America, Inc. in Rockville, Maryland. Chin plans on
continuing her education in science and is one of only ten student
recipients selected in 1999 to receive the $2,000 award from the Lupus
Foundation.