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Mount Alumna Joy Cote ’12 Wins Sigma Xi Grant

11/8/2018

Tradition to Support Students and Early Career Researchers Carries on at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting

Riverdale, N.Y. – Alumna Joy Cote ’12 has been awarded a research grant from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society, during the Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference on November 5, 2018.

Dr. Cote, a postdoctoral associate at Fox Chase Cancer Center and a Sigma Xi member, conducts research focusing on understanding protein dynamics and interactions, which are often essential in combating human diseases. Much of her research currently focuses on understanding how the addition of small protein tags influence their function.

“The grant-in-aid of research will help me develop new methods for analyzing these complex and traditionally difficult to probe interactions,” said Dr. Cote.

Dr. Cote joined Fox Chase in January 2018 after earning her Ph.D. from Wesleyan University and her B.S. from the University of Mount Saint Vincent. As an undergraduate, she completed research projects with Sigma Xi Board of Directors member and Mount Saint Vincent Sigma Xi Chapter President Pamela Kerrigan, Director for the Division of Natural Sciences and Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Sigma Xi member James Fabrizio, Professor of Biology.

Supporting students and early career researchers is a major part of Sigma Xi’s work. Dr. Cote received her grant during the Society’s annual Student Research Conference, in which Sigma Xi members judged and provided feedback on student research posters. She was selected to receive the grant by this year’s William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement winner, Anna Marie Skalka, professor emerita at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

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