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Ben Allwein

Graduate School & Degree

Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences

About

Ben is currently a Ph.D. student in structural biology at the Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences. His research explores the fundamental basis of cancer pathogenesis using cryo-electron microscopy in collaboration with scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Ben is a former Fulbright-Nehru Scholar and is deeply interested in research, education, science outreach and communication, and political organization at local levels. 

After grdauating from Ursinus, his research as a Fulbright Scholar explored interspecific competition and horizontal gene transfer in Acinetobacter and Klebsiella genera and how they evolve resistance to antibiotics. Through this work, Ben was able to contribute to the global effort to mitigate the spread and harm of bacteria which have evolved multidrug resistance in India and elsewhere around the world.

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Ben Allwein '18
Alumnus Ben Allwein “Gives Back” to UC
As part of #Giving2UCDay, Ursinus alumni were invited back into the classroom.
Ben Allwein '18 (top left); Dr. Dale Cameron (Associate Professor of Biology, right), and Dr. Christina Kelly (Research Assistant, bottom...
Professor Dale Cameron and his lab team publish research on prions
Associate Professor of Biology, Dr. Dale Cameron, along with his former Honors student Ben Allwein (’18) and Research Assistant Dr. Christina Kelly, recently published their work on prions (view full text). Prions form when proteins adopt alternative structures that can assemble into ordered protein aggregates. These misshapen proteins can propagate their prion structures infectiously, converting other molecules of the same protein into the prion conformation. Prions are the cause of diseases like “mad cow” disease, scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
Ben Allwein '18 will perform research in India under a Fulbright scholarship.
Ursinus Senior Earns Fulbright Award to Study in India

Ben Allwein ’18 will spend one year at the Translational Health Science & Technology Institute in Delhi to research antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.

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