Shengxin Tu wins 2024 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award
PhD candidate Shengxin Tu has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt’s Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction” with $2,500 in supplemental funding. Tu is first author of a recent paper in the prestigious Statistics in Medicine journal, as well as second author of a retrospective cohort study discussed in last month’s Journal of the International AIDS Society. Tu currently serves as secretary of the Biostatistics Graduate Student Association and has completed internships at Genetech and Amazon; she is also presently a research assistant with CCASAnet, the Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology.
