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IGERT Fellow Heather Cirka Named as 2013 Koerner Fellow

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The Koerner Family Fellowship is in its second season here at WPI. The family wishes to aid graduate and undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in academia. Heather Cirka of the IGERT Grant and Biomedical Engineering Department was selected as one of the 2013 graduate fellows. Heather is currently studying mechanobiological sensing in valvular interstitial cells and the implications for treatment of calcific aortic valve disease.