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Molecular Genetics Alum Maya Gosztyla wins NSF Graduate Fellowship

March 27, 2021

Molecular Genetics Alum Maya Gosztyla wins NSF Graduate Fellowship

Graduation photo of Maya Gosztyla

Many congratulations to Maya Gosztyla, a 2018 graduate of the Molecular Genetics program who was recently awarded a prestigious NSF-funded Graduate Research Fellowship. These fellowships recognize and support outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Maya completed an Honors thesis in the Seeger lab, where she examined polymorphic variants influencing axon guidance in Drosophila picking up numerous undergraduate fellowships from OSU along the way. She also was awarded the Goldwater Scholarship and the Astronaut Scholarship, and received a fellowship from the U.S. Embassy of Switzerland funding a summer research internship in Switzerland.

Following her graduation, Maya was an NIH Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in the  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), where she developed a mass spectrometry assay to screen candidate drugs for lipid storage diseases. Maya then joined the Yeo lab in UCSD’s Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. where she is working to develop RNA-targeted therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. Maya is also supported by a competitive fellowship from the Myotonic Dystrophy Association. You can read more about Maya and some of our other outstanding alumni here.

We are so proud of Maya!