NJCU Alumna Sherouk Hassan Receives NIH Fellowship

Sherouk Hassan, an NJCU graduate in May 2019, received a Post-Baccalaureate appointment as a Fellow with the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD.  Hassan was a chemistry major, and a scholar in the NJCU Honors Program.

Her NIH position will be with a NIH clinical center lab that studies the neurobiology of pain and nociception using models of sickle cell disease and models that display abnormal social behavior.

While an NJCU undergraduate, Sherouk worked with Dr. Yufeng Wei in his lab where she studied protein-protein interactions and performed basic Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) research focused on exploring the diversity of bacterial resistance in soil samples across the area of New York and New Jersey.

“Dr. Wei has been a great support to me and prepared me very well for this NIH opportunity. I feel that if I am being recognized, he deserves to be recognized as well because I wouldn’t have been able to receive this opportunity if he hadn't given me the chance to work in his lab and teach me many lab techniques.”

Hassan has a two-year appointment and expects to enter medical school after the NIH experience.