Former graduate student Erkin Kuru (Brun/VanNieuwenhze labs, PhD 2016) received IU's University Graduate School Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award for 2017 in the Biological Sciences category. He is now a postdoc at Harvard in George Church’s lab.
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Former graduate student Erkin Kuru (Brun/VanNieuwenhze labs, PhD 2016) received IU's University Graduate School Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award for 2017 in the Biological Sciences category. He is now a postdoc at Harvard in George Church’s lab.