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Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
The Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation345 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10154
To The Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation,
I am writing to thank you for your generosity to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and for supporting my MSTP training. It is an honor to be a Rudin fellow and to receive this award from such a well-known organization.
I am a New York native that graduated from Cooper Union this past May, where I concurrently received a Bachelors of Engineering and a Masters of Engineering in chemical engineering. I aspire to apply my technical background to both clinical and laboratory work in cardiology. Specifically, I intend to implement my undergraduate training to computational cardiology research in order to enhance cardiotherapeutic antiarrhythmic drugs via mathematical modeling.
Throughout my Cooper Union career, I conducted research on many cardiotherapeutic areas, which has strengthened my conviction that an engineering background is a valuable asset in medicine. For example, I developed a multi-purpose bioreactor to engineer cardiac tissue, and I mathematically modeled the potential of mesenchymal stem cells to enhance cardiomyocyte function following myocardial infarction. Furthermore, I worked with a small group of students to design an exercise machine that would stimulate obese users. Our exercise bike was capable of tracking a users peddling speed, which was outputted into a racing videogame to encourage friendly competition between users.
When I was not in the classroom or laboratory at Cooper Union, I was in the gym training with my fellow teammates. As the Cooper Union basketball team captain, I applied my academics to my athletics, and my athletics to my academics. I am determined to continue mentoring the current players the way previous captains have mentored me. I was also fortune enough to mentor pre-medicine students at Cooper Union when I founded the Pre-Med club.
Once again, I am extremely thankful for your gift that has led to countless opportunities for me.
Sincerely,
Joshua Mayourian