Medical physiology student Koyal Ansingkar teams up with physiology professor Michael Decker to pen award-winning proposal

Koyal Ansingkar, medical physiology student at Case Western Reserve University, collaborated with physiology and biophysics professor Michael Decker to write an award-winning grant proposal on airman systems. 

Ansingkar and Decker’s proposal, “Establishing Mechanisms through which Systemic Inflammatory Processes Negatively Impact Brain Structure, Function, and Ultimately, Aircrew Readiness,” was awarded the Air Force Research Laboratory/Defense Associated Graduate Innovators Student-Faculty Fellowship by the Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education in March. The fellowship is a one-year grant totaling $45,000.  

Ansingkar is pursuing her Master of Science in Medical Physiology. Learn more about the program.

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