Katie Yang, a doctoral candidate in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has received a prestigious Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Katie’s research focus is on the peripheral mechanisms of vocal and swallowing deficits in a rat model of Parkinson Disease. Katie is a member of the lab of Dr. Michelle Ciucci, assistant professor of surgery, and is one of two UW-Madison graduate students to earn the fellowship.