Fargo, N.D. — Sathish K.R. Padi, a graduate student in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, received a Graduate Student Travel Award to the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics annual meeting at the Experimental Biology 2013 Conference in Boston.
 
Padi also received a Young Investigator Award from the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine to present research at the same conference. He will discuss his research on the epigenetic mechanisms of vitamin D in colon cancer. Padi is from India and has been a graduate student at NDSU since 2008. He works with Bin Guo, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences. The awards will be presented during the conference April 20-24 in Boston. 
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private research universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.