This is a big event for the UW’s new South Lake Union Campus.
Cameron Turtle, a student in Mike Regnier’s laboratory at the UW Center for Cardiovascular Regernative Medicine is one of of two UW students to win a 2012 Rhodes Scholarship! Cameron and Byron Gray, another UW senior whose interests are in Urdu and Hindi, will both study at Oxford as part of a program that this year awarded scholarships to 32 Americans this year. Previous awardees have included numerous great Americans including Bobby Jindall, Bill Clinton, Wesley Clark, and Carl Albert.
Most of these have been politicians, Cameron’s award is an especially satisfying recognition of the UWs role in medical science.
The UW was the only public university to win more than one award. Cameron came to the UW from Pullman Washington.
Michael Regnier, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice-Chair
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
I am very pleased to announce that Cameron Turtle, a senior undergraduate in our Bioengineering department, was selected this past weekend as a Rhodes Scholar for 2012.
For Cameron, this is the culmination of a very busy and accomplished undergraduate experience in our program. He is a co-founder of Bioengineers Without Borders at the University of Washington and is CEO of Point of Care Technologies, a company to develop molecular medical diagnostic devices that interface with Android-based mobile equipment. Cameron has also been very involved in research, starting in my lab as a freshman (washing dishes) and currently taking a leading role in protein/cell engineering-based research for treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This work will result in authorship on at least two papers that are in preparation.
Cameron’s research accomplishments have been widely recognized. This past February he was awarded a travel scholarship to present his work at the nternational Biophysical Society conference in Baltimore, MD. Cameron was a finalist in the research poster competition, taking 2nd place as a junior undergraduate, and narrowly losing out to a 3rd year graduate student from MIT.
For his research and scholastic accomplishments Cameron has been awarded 2 Mary Gates Scholarships, an Amgen Summer Fellowship, a Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, a Washington Scholars award, a National Scholars award, an American Heart Association Summer Fellowship and, recently, a Goldwater fellowship. He now adds the Rhodes Scholarship to this list.
Cameron is planning to attend Oxford College, UK in 2012 to do his Ph.D. work in Cardiovascular Medicine.
Please join me in congratulating Cameron for his accomplishments. In addition, this is wonderful recognition of the education and opportunities offered in our Bioengineering department and at the University of Washington.
Best Regards,
Mike
Michael Regnier, Ph.D.