Template Email
<Opening salutation> <Title> <Their Name>,
(1) Introduction (include your name and general info about organization).
(2) Brief description of project and goals.
(3) Acknowledgement of professional’s experience with regard to your project.
(4) Specific needs in question.
(5) Offer up your willingness to meet and accommodate their schedule.
(6) Thank them for their time and expertise.
<Closing salutation>,
<Your Name>
<optional: title, year, status, etc.>
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Sample Contact Emails:
Dear Dr. Mysorekar,
My name is Christian Shewmake; I’m an engineering student at Washington University. I’m contacting you on behalf of the EWH chapter at Wash U. Our mission is to develop tech solutions for problems in global health. Our teams have a lot of questions regarding direction for these projects. We spoke with Dr. Jacaranda Van Rheenen, and she highly recommended that we seek your insights regarding the further development of our projects and moving forward. We understand that you have experience in infection with regard to women’s health and think that talking with you would be extremely beneficial to our teams. If you have the time, we would love to meet with you. We will be available from June 9th to July 11th. Thank you so much for your time; we look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Christian Shewmake
Dear Nathan Reed,
My name is Alexander Zhang, and I am a member of an undergraduate design team under Engineers World Health. Our current project focuses on the usage of a chitosan-alginate hydrogel for transdermal drug delivery purposes. However, we are having difficulties successfully creating the gel complex, and our methods thus far have only resulted in separate gel layers of chitosan and sodium-alginate.
A quick search on the web has led us to thin layer deposition as a possible means to successfully create the chitosan-alginate complex. Given your expertise in nanomaterial synthesis and deposition, I am wondering if you can give any advice regarding the feasibility of this method, or whether or not there are better methods out there to combine the chitosan and sodium-alginate.
If you aren’t too busy, I would also love to meet with you in person to discuss our project further. Thank you very much, and I appreciate any help.
Sincerely,
Alexander Zhang