Research may aid animals and humans with emphysema

North Grafton, Mass.

-- A veterinary student's research into the use of stem cells in lung therapies won top honors in an annual contest at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

Marieke H. Rosenbaum, a third-year student, won the award for research that may eventually help both animals and humans with emphysema.

Rosenbaum's research, funded by the National Institutes of Health's Summer Research Training Program, was overseen by Andrew Hoffman, an associate professor at the Cummings School.