Sri Lanka, Dec. 31 -- The PhRMA Foundation has awarded University of Mississippi graduate student Kenneth Hulugalla its Predoctoral Fellowship in Drug Delivery, which will support his research to develop new ways to get cancer-fighting medications to tumors.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation offers up to US$ 30,000 per year to students completing their doctoral degrees. Hulugalla, a fourth-year biomedical engineering doctoral candidate from Kandy, Sri Lanka, is the first Ole Miss student to receive the fellowship.

"The foundation looks for projects that could actually make it to clinics if they get the funding to do that," Hulugalla said. "I really consider it a privilege to be awarded the fellowship be...