01/27/2023
Congratulations to Rutgers’ Leela Biswas for being named the 2022 winner of the American Medical Association (AMA) Research Challenge!
Working out of a genetics lab at , Biswas’s research sought to identify a genetic predictor of infertility. Her work beat out nearly 1,200 entries in the competition, which the AMA describes as, “the largest national, multispecialty research event for medical students, residents and international medical graduates.”
Biswas, who is pursuing a dual doctoral degree in medicine and microbiology and molecular genetics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, earned a grand prize of $10,000 and says the award brings “a lot of attention to a really important, pressing, understudied and underfunded issue as well as highlights the excellent training and research being done here at Rutgers."
"I think it will help springboard continued studies as well as help me become a physician-scientist who really focuses on precision medicine and bringing better solutions to individuals that are more personalized and based on who they are and what makes them them."
