BME Student Awarded Pelotonia Fellowship

Kinshuk Mitra, a current BME undergrad, was recently awarded a Pelotonia Fellowship. The Pelotonia Fellowship program is a one-year fellowship of $12,000 with a possible second year of $6,000. Its goal is to fund research that tackles cancer from the perspective of any discipline from astrology to zoology.

Pelotonia is a grassroots bike tour that raises money for innovative and life saving cancer research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. The competitive fellowship sponsored by Pelotonia is a cancer research program developed to train the most promising cancer scientists at The Ohio State University. This fellowship program funds training for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students and postdoctoral fellows at Ohio State.

In addition to the Pelotonia Fellowship, Mitra was also recently awarded a one-year research scholarship. The College of Engineering scholarship is a one-year $2,000 award to complete research in an engineering discipline. "My research focuses on creating a medical device for point-of-care detection of cancer using Circulating Tumor Cells as diagnostic and later prognostic markers. We intend to use fluorescent dyes and packaging solutions to create a compact form factor device that is able to carry out this purpose," says Mitra.

Congratulations Kinshuk!