A bequest from scientists George and Mary Stark will help future generations of scientists conduct vital research in the field of gene regulation.
The George R. and Mary B. Stark Endowed Scholarship will provide support for graduate students working in CSU’s Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (GRHD) which was founded in 2008 with a grant from the Ohio Third Frontier Commission. Since then, GRHD researchers have secured more than $18 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Heart Association and other sources, and published more than 120 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals that have been cited more than 1,500 times.
Dr. Stark is a world-renown research scientist, and the Distinguished Scientist of the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, where he served as chair from 1992 to 2002. He has been an adjunct professor at CSU for decades. The author of over 250 articles, he has made important contributions to biomedical research, including the development of the western and northern techniques in protein and nucleic acid chemistry. He holds a doctorate in chemistry from Columbia University and received an honorary doctor of science degree from CSU in 2003.
Mary Stark was trained in physics at the University of Michigan and has worked in the laboratory with her husband for many years.
“Mary and I are delighted to be able to help provide future support for graduate students in this wonderful GRHD program, which I have watched evolve with great pleasure,” says Dr. Stark.