Jianglei Chen, a graduate student from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, recently was awarded a $26,000 predoctoral fellowship by the Greater Midwest Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association. Chen's application was one of 30 funded out of a pool of 90. The title of the project is "Structural Studies of a Newly Identified Specific Chaperone Protein MESD, for LDL Receptor Family." Chen is a student in the lab of Dr. Jianjun Wang, WSU associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology.