{"id":5729,"date":"2026-10-03T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:43:29","slug":"student-fellowship-and-grant-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/2026\/10\/03\/student-fellowship-and-grant-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Fellowship and Grant Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-5729\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-5729-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-5729-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-5729-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><h2 class=\"entry-title\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Student Fellowship and Grant Awards<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>October 02, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine and Canaan Partners offer venture capital and entrepreneurship fellowship opportunities for Ph.D., M. D., M.D.\/Ph.D., D.M.D., or D.M.D.\/Ph.D. students.\u00a0 Fellows receive hands-on training, working in multidisciplinary teams that provide scientific review, due diligence, and when relevant, business strategy, and market analysis around new ventures and potential investment opportunities.\u00a0 The 2026 UConn-Canaan fellows included Biomedical Science Ph. D. students <strong>Patrick Fleming<\/strong> (Genetics and Developmental Biology AoC; PI: Paul Robson) and <strong>Sakthi Rajendran<\/strong> (Genetics and Developmental Biology AoC; PI: Eric Wang).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_PatrickFleming-.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_PatrickFleming--300x71.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_PatrickFleming--300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_PatrickFleming--768x182.png 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_PatrickFleming-.png 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_SakthiRajendran.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_SakthiRajendran-300x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_SakthiRajendran-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_SakthiRajendran-768x304.png 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2026\/10\/2026-Student-Fellowship-and-Grant-Awards_SakthiRajendran.png 946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Fellowship and Grant Awards October 02, 2026 The University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine and Canaan Partners offer venture capital and entrepreneurship fellowship opportunities for Ph.D., M. D., M.D.\/Ph.D., D.M.D., or D.M.D.\/Ph.D. students.\u00a0 Fellows receive hands-on training, working in multidisciplinary teams that provide scientific review, due diligence, and when relevant, business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-12 06:05:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}