Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry (MCBB) PhD student Albert Mondragon of the McCall Lab has been awarded a 3 year Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual Research Service Award from the NIH. The grant is entitled “Investigation of non-autonomous cell death and corpse clearance” and Albert will use the award to study the role of lysosomes in a novel form of cell death in Drosophila.