Congratulations to Kailyn Doiron for receiving the Summer 2021 Fujifilm Fellowship! Kailyn is an alum of the BMB program, graduating with her BA in BMB and MA in Biotechnology in 2017. Since 2019, Fujifilm company has sponsored a fellowship award at Harvard Medical School in which 11 Ph.D. candidates are funded for 2 years worth of research to promising students from various life science Ph.D. programs. This fellowship program specifically aims to provide young scientists with the specialized skills required to translate their research findings into practical medical applications for patients. In addition to funding, Fujifilm Fellows are enrolled in a specialized program called the Therapeutics Graduate Program, a new curriculum focusing on pharmacology, toxicology, and drug discovery.
Kailyn Dorion is a first-generation college student and third-year student in the Systems, Synthetic, Quantitative Biology Ph.D. Program at Harvard Medical School. In the HMS Blavatnik Institute, she currently works in the lab of Dr. Pamela Silver, Elliott T., and Onie H. Adams. Dorion desires to develop protein-based therapeutics to provide effective treatment for chronic and inflammatory pain.