Farag selected as a Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellow
Program recognizes doctoral students for achievements, promise in biomedical sciences
Mina Farag, an MD/PhD student in the McKelvey School of Engineering and at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been selected as a Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellow by the Medical Scientist Training Program Committee at WashU. The prestigious fellowship, awarded annually, recognizes superior accomplishments in biomedical research by doctoral students.
As a doctoral student in the lab of Rohit Pappu, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Farag worked to understand how proteins behave at the surface of biomolecular condensates and how this behavior can be connected to physiological and pathological functions of condensates. Specifically, using LASSI, a Monte Carlo simulation engine developed by members of the Pappu lab, he simulated full biomolecular condensates comprised of proteins. By analyzing these simulations using multiple novel techniques, he drew inferences about the organization and interfacial features of real-world condensates.
Farag has published 15 papers in major scientific journals, most notably Science, Cell, Nature Chemistry, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Communications and Nature Physics. He also contributed to an important review published in Chemical Reviews. His work has garnered more than 1,600 citations.
Olin Fellows are recognized at a dinner held later this spring.
“Mina has exceeded the highest of expectations as a PhD student,” Pappu said. “His insatiable curiosity, fearlessness, relentless pursuit of scholarship, ability to collaborate, clarity of communication, and his incredible ability to think deeply and quantitatively set him apart from his peers.”
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