(Boston)--Katya Ravid, DSc, professor of medicine and biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recently was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to France. She is the first to receive this honor in biomedical research at BU.
A Fulbright Scholar Award is one of the highest honors the federal government gives with regard to scholarship and international exchange. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.
Ravid will be leading innovative interdisciplinary research in hematopoiesis and megakaryocte/platelet biomedical research. She will serve as advisor to ongoing institutional interdisciplinary programs at the Biology and Pharmacology of Blood Platelet Institute within the University of Strasbourg and INSERM (French Institute of Health and Medical Research) France.
Ravid is the founding director of the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and BU's Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and recipient of several awards including the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, the University of Sidney International Scholarship Award, the Weizmann Institute Professorship Visiting Award, the Robert Dawson Evans Teaching Award and the Educator of the Year Award in Graduate Medical Sciences at BUSM.
She is the chair of the Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Scientific Committee at the American Society of Hematology, past chair of a Gordon Research Conference on the Cell Biology of Megakaryocytes and Platelets and member or chair of several national and international research planning or review committees.
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The Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and other countries, and it is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. Since its beginnings in 1946, more than 360,000 Fulbrighters have participated in the Program, of whom a great number has resumed high leadership positions at university, state, community and industry levels.