Skyler Cochrane Receives Graduate Fellowship Award!

Skyler Cochrane, jointly mentored by Drs. Pei Zhou and Jiyong Hong, has received the Jo Rae Wright Fellowship for Outstanding Women in Science! The fellowship, created in memory of former Dean of the Graduate School, is funded through an endowment given in her name to recognize two Ph.D. students—one in the biomedical sciences and one in the natural sciences—whose research shows particular creativity and promise. Skyler will receive a monetary award in recognition of her work developing and testing novel inhibitors of one particular enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway of lipid A, LpxH. Recently Skyler has collaborated with Dr. Amanda Hargrove to investigate how to improve permeation of antibiotics across the double membrane of highly infectious, gram-negative bacteria.