Student Brings Sickle Cell Disease Research To France With Chateaubriand Fellowship

Student Brings Sickle Cell Disease Research To France With Chateaubriand Fellowship

Kian Torabian, a biomedical engineering doctoral student at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, will bring his innovative Sickle Cell Disease research to France as a 2016 recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship.

The Fellowship, offered by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in Washington D.C., aims to initiate and reinforce collaborations, partnerships and joint projects between French and American research teams.