Issue: 1188 Date: 5/30/2013
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Arch Grants winners receive additional grants from UMSL
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Mohit Patel
Jason Atkins and Mohit Patel were among the 20 recipients of $50,000 grants from Arch Grants last week for their startup Genetix Fusion. But that wasn't the first grant the pair of researchers from the University of Missouri-St. Louis received recently.
Atkins and Patel are working on their doctoral degrees in biology in the laboratory of George Gokel, director of the Center for Nanoscience at UMSL.
The trio will share a $50,000 grant for research into using chemical agents to facilitate DNA transfer to cells, according to UMSL Daily.
The grant was awarded through the FastTrack Funding program organized by the four-campus University of Missouri System.
And that's not all. Atkins and Patel also got a $500 prize (yes, $500) after being inducted as honorary members of the UMSL chapter of the National Academy of Inventors and winning the UMSL Student Inventor of the Year Award.
Patel told UMSL Daily's Myra Lopez that the Arch Grants win validates the team's research and gave them the opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs and business leaders.
"The grant will help us establish our operations here in St. Louis and initiate sales and marketing for our first product," Patel said.
