March 28, 2006
Sariah Khormaee receives biomedical scholarship to study at Cambridge University in England
Sariah Khormaee has been selected as a National Institutes of Health – Marshall Scholar in Biomedical Research.
Khormaee will be conducting research for two years at the Cambridge University School of Medicine as a full-time doctoral student in biomedical science. She also will spend about two years in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The scholarship award has a value in excess of $200,000 in research and stipend support.
Khormaee, a senior at the University of Washington, is a graduate of Skyview High School in Vancouver.
She is majoring in neurobiology and biochemistry at the UW and will graduate with College Honors. She has received UW Undergraduate Scholar awards in 2002-3 and 2003-4. She also has received a Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Training Grant, the Zahlia-Jencks-Rowe Scholarship in Biochemistry, the Henley Honors Program Scholarship and the CRC Department of Chemistry Freshman Achievement Award. In 2005 she receved a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Grant.
Khormaee is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She also plays the harp in the UW Harp Ensemble.
Her favorite undergraduate experiences have included participating in research projects in pathology and ophthalmology, and organizing a discussion on access to medical insurance and prescription drugs for the Alpha Epsilon Delta premedical honor society.
Khormaee is planning to become a physician, specializing in ophthalmology. Her career plans include developing accessible and affordable treatments for curing blindness.
Outside of school, Khormaee enjoys watercoloring, web design, reading, as well as running, bicycling and canoeing.
