Kayode Medubi awarded UWM Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship

Kayode Medubi has been awarded a Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship award for 2024-25.

Kayode is starting his third year as a graduate student in the Arnold research group. His research focuses on developing new drug candidates for asthma and inflammatory bowel disease. He is also involved in collaborations with the group of Dr. Karyn Frick and the UWM startup company Estrigenix. He is an excellent presenter and has won two poster presentation awards, one at the Milwaukee Analytical Chemistry Conference in 2022 and one at the departmental Chemistry Awards Day in 2023.

Kayode has published one journal article during his M.S. work, and one journal article from his work at UWM.

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