2020 CCNY Great Grad Mathiu Perez Rodriguez is NIAID Fellow

The recipient of several top national awards in three stellar years at The City College of New York, Mathiu Perez Rodriguez from the Class of 2020 is leaving his alma mater with one of the biggest research awards in the country, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Fellowship.

Perez Rodriguez enters the highly competitive program this summer for one year before heading to medical school. The program promotes biomedical research training in allergic, immunologic, or infectious diseases. 

Fellows are talented senior-level undergraduate students, who have recently completed a master’s degree, or are in the final year of a master’s degree program. 

The NIAID Fellowship is an emphatic punctuation to Perez Rodriguez’ graduation from CCNY with combined BS and MS degrees in biochemistry, and a reputation as an academic pioneer. That is because he is the first student to graduate from City College’s accelerated MS program in biochemistry.

Mentored by Ruth E. Stark, a CUNY Distinguished Professor, Perez Rodriguez’ honors at City College include: a scholarship from the National American Chemical Society, Louis Stokes Alliance, AMSNY,  City College and MARC fellowships, multiple undergraduate research honor awards from Harvard Medical School, the American Chemical Society’s Scholar honor, National Institutes of Health Fellowships; and the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, America’s premiere award for undergraduates majoring in math, science and engineering.

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