Dr. Jessica Winter featured in But for Ohio State campaign video

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Dr. Jessica Winter, professor in the departments of Chemical and Biomolecular and Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University, was featured in a video to mark the end of the But for Ohio State fundraising campaign to show the impact of the campaign’s donors on the students and faculty at Ohio State.

In the video, Dr. Winter spoke of receiving her breast cancer diagnosis 5 years ago. She explained that her diagnosis made her want to continue her research against cancer more than ever.

See the video here.

Dr. Winter joined the faculty in summer of 2006. Dr. Winter completed her graduate work under the guidance of Dr. Christine Schmidt (BME) and Dr. Brian Korgel (ChE) at the University of Texas at Austin in the area of biological nanoparticles. Her postdoctoral work was performed at the Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation, a collaborative effort between Harvard Medical School and MIT to develop a prosthesis to restore lost visual function. Her work, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Rizzo, III (Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical) and Dr. Stuart Cogan (EIC Laboratories, Norwood, MA) examined the application of tissue engineering techniques to neural prosthetic devices. Dr. Winter is the recipient of an NSF IGERT fellowship, NSF graduate research fellowship, Biomedical Engineering Society Graduate Student Award, and the Materials Research Society Gold Graduate Student Award.

The But for Ohio State campaign is the most successful fundraising effort in the history of our university with more than $3 billion in gifts made by over 750,000 donors.