One of Rutgers' Youngest Graduates Receives Hertz Fellowship

Kyle Loh graduated last year at 16 and will enter Ph.D. program at Stanford this fall

Kyle Loh, a 2010 graduate of Rutgers, and one of the university’s youngest graduates, has been selected by the Hertz Foundation to receive one of its 15 doctoral fellowships. 

Loh was accepted to Rutgers University at age 13 and graduated summa cum laude, at the age of 16, last year after majoring in cell biology and neuroscience. He is currently at the Genome Institute in Singapore where he is leading a team research project. He will be entering the Ph.D. program at Stanford School of Medicine in the fall. 

There were 558 applicants to the Hertz Fellowship, one of the nation’s most generous Ph.D. fellowships, valued at more than $250,000 and lasting up to five years of graduate studies.

 “Fellows are chosen for their intellect, their ingenuity and their potential to bring meaningful improvement to society.  … We believe they show the most promise to change the world,” said Jay Davis, the Hertz Foundation's president. 

If that’s not enough, Loh is also a 2010 Davidson Fellow Laureate, receiving a $50,000 scholarship for his project, “Chemical Reprogramming of Murine and Human Cells into Pluripotent Stem Cells.”  The Davidson Institute for Talent Development is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to supporting gifted students under the age of 18.

By age 16 Loh had done research in four stem cell labs, two at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and two at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

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