WASHINGTON, PA (May 17, 2019)—The National Institutes of Health (NIH)选择了华盛顿 & 澳门葡京博彩软件 biochemistry major Ian Leighton ’19 as a post-baccalaureate fellow in the Immunity to Pulmonary Pathogens Section, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID).
Ian will work in the laboratory of Catharine Bosio, Ph.D., at the NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Mont. where he will research the molecular basis of the pathogenesis of the infectious bacterium francisella tularenis, a potential bioterrorism agent which causes the fatal disease pneumonic tularemia. 兔热病 is rapidly spreading and has a low lethal dosage. Through studying the disease, the lab is looking for ways to protect against francisella as well as understanding how this disease and others like it spread—and how to fight against them.
Landing a fellowship with the NIH is extremely competitive, and involves a lot of hard work. Ian looked into several labs before finding Dr. Bosio的. Two Internships in cancer research labs during his time at W&J, funded by the College’s Merck and Maxwell internship awards, 帮助伊恩脱颖而出, 以及他在W&J pointed him toward studying infectious diseases.
“来这里, I thought I wanted to go to medical school right away, but through my labs and courses and my summer internship, I started enjoying studying biology and infectious disease,伊恩说。. “When I took immunology and microbiology, I fell in love with it and wanted to know more about it.”
Ian continued on that path, working with W&J Professor of 生物logy Candy DeBerry, Ph.D., to learn even more about the field and find those lab internship opportunities he completed in the summers following his sophomore and junior years. 他和博士的工作. DeBerry and other faculty members at W&J made him an ideal candidate for both experiences.
“Every science lab I had at W&J taught me techniques that I found, when I went to my Internships, other interns at the same level (of study) as me didn’t know how to do,伊恩说。. “I could say I already know this stuff, and I didn’t have to spend my time training there. 我可以做作业.”
As he continues on his career path, Ian is weighing his options between attending medical school, completing an MD program that would also allow him to pursue a Ph.D. so he can continue doing clinical research, or pursuing another degree through graduate school.
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