Contact Information

 

Physical Address

Dell Butcher Hall Rm. 360

Rice University

Houston, TX 77005

 

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 1892, MS-60

Houston, TX 77251-1892

 

Phone: (713) 348-3476

Fax: (713) 348-5155

 

Rice University

 

Department of Chemistry

 

 

Last Updated: 08/31/2009

Lesa Tran

3rd Year Graduate Student

Email: lesa@rice.edu

Phone: (713) 348-3476

Office: Dell Butcher Hall 360

 

B.S., Chemistry

Rice University (2007)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Interests

    Development of gadonanotubes as MRI cellular labels (Pig bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), 3T3 Mouse fibroblast cells, MCF7 breast cancer cells)

 

Awards & Honors

    NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2008 - present)

    Robert A. Welch Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Rice University (2007 - 2008)

     Dean’s Travel Award, School of Natural Sciences, Rice University (2008)

    Travel Award, Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN), Rice University (2008 - 2009)

    Zevi and Bertha Salsburg Memorial Award in Chemistry, Rice University (2006)