Valeria Cota: Graduate Student Earns Prestigious NIH Award

Valeria Cota is a first-generation college student from a large family, most of whom live in either Iowa or Mexico. She's also completing her fourth year as a graduate student in Associate Professor Nicole Brogden's lab, which focuses on the use of microneedles to improve drug delivery through the skin. Notably, Cota is a recipient of a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kirschstein National Research Service Award Pre-Doctoral F31 Fellowship - an "extremely prestigious award and notoriously challenging to get," according to Brogden, Cota's major professor.

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