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Physiology
and biophysics alumna receives Sloan Fellowship
CLEVELAND (April
16, 2005) – Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D., who earned her Ph.D. in physiology and
biophysics in 2001 from Case Western Reserve University, has been awarded a
prestigious Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.
Dr. Clancy is an assistant professor of
physiology and biophysics at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine of
Weill Cornell Medical College. She is among 116 young scientists and economists
selected as 2005 Sloan Fellows. The fellowships allow scientists to continue
their research with awards of $45,000 each over two years. Fellows are free to
pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them.
Dr. Clancy joined the Cornell faculty in
2004. She was profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual
"Rising Stars: Ph.D.s to Watch" in 2001 and was the recipient of a
Junior Investigator Research Grant from the National Epilepsy Foundation in
2004-05.
Her previous research focused on cardiac
genetics and abnormal rhythms. She is now expanding her laboratory focus to
genetic mutations in neuronal ion channels that have been linked to epilepsy.
Recent work focuses on developing more detailed models of hippocampal neurons.
Her long-term goal is to improve understanding of the underlying ionic
mechanisms of excitable systems and to determine how genetic defects in ion
channels may disrupt the balance of membrane ionic currents at the cellular
level.
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