Congratulations to Kam Hon Hoi, a graduate student working in Professor George Georgiou's lab, on receiving the Thomas Marschall Runge, M.D. Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering.
Kam Hon Hoi
Congratulations to Kam Hon Hoi, a graduate student working in Professor George Georgiou's lab, on receiving the Thomas Marschall Runge, M.D. Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering.
Hoi's research focuses on understanding antibodies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. He uses an integrated approach combining next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics to more efficiently understand the antibody repertoire and its diversity with a direct application of discovering therapeutic antibodies.
The fellowship, established on March 28, 2013 with funds provided by Dr. Runge's wife Gretchen Sophia Hermann Runge, Ph.D., is awarded to biomedical graduate students who display scholastic merit.
Thomas Runge received an M.D. from The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston and embarked on a lifelong career in Austin as the city's first cardiologist. Dr. Runge also held a professorship in biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and began his affiliation with the Cockrell School of Engineering in 1967. He was an inventor and experimentalist devoted to improving medical devices and procedures. He concentrated primarily on enhancing the post-operative recovery of patients undergoing cardiac bypass surgery.
