Biomedical Engineer Receives L'Oréal Women in Science Fellowship

A biomedical engineer from Yale University received one of five 2007 L'Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science and a grant of $40,000 at a ceremony in New York yesterday. Kim Woodrow's research at the university in New Haven, Conn., involves using bioactive peptides to engineer biodegradable nanoparticles that can deliver drugs to specific cells and treat infectious diseases and cancer. This combination of molecular biology and nanotechnology will likely translate into new technology for imaging and treating diseases, L'Oréal said. Also receiving 2007 fellowships and $40,000 grants were earth scientist and geochemist Jaime Barnes of the University of New Mexico; neuroscientist Sarah Clinton of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; physical chemist Maria Krisch of the University of California, Irvine; and oceanographer Julie Huber of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.