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Apr 2026

Martin Patel awarded OSU STEP Mentoring Program funding

Martin received an award from The Ohio State University's Second-year Transformational Experience Program, supporting his work on tissue processing in mouse and human skin.

The STEP Mentoring Program at Ohio State funds undergraduate Signature Projects designed in partnership with a faculty mentor. Martin's award supports his ongoing work developing tissue processing, imaging, and quantitative analysis methods for mouse hindpaw and human skin biopsy samples.

The funded project advances method development across the Quantitative Imaging Group's peripheral tissue program.