Heslop wins national research award

Kareem Heslop, a graduate research assistant in the lab of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences' Eduardo Maldonado, has been selected for the 2022 Student Bioenergeticist Award.

This national recognition is by the Bioenergetics, Mitochondria and Metabolism (BMM) subgroup of the Biophysical Society. He will be honored at the BMM subgroup symposium on Saturday, February 19, in San Francisco where he will also present his work.
 
The Biophysical Society is an international scientific society whose purpose is to lead the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics, while the BMM subgroup focuses on mitochondria and chloroplasts, from biogenesis to the structure and function of individual protein components.

They have chosen well. Heslop, a 2017 graduate of Claflin University and one of 83 students selected nationwide by the White House to be ambassadors for higher education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, is a member of the Rho Chi Academic Society, recipient of the Hollings Cancer Center Abney Pre-doctoral fellowship, and a Southern Regional Education Board Dissertation Scholar.