Taylor University Student Lands Fellowship
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowTaylor University student Rachel VanTries has landed a two-year fellowship in the National Institutes of Health Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award program. She is a senior biology student from Indianapolis. VanTries will be working under Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky, MD, MHS, conducting clinical lab research on rare auto-inflammatory diseases occurring in children, including CANDLE and SAVI which typically start exhibiting in early infancy. Goldbach-Mansky is a Principal Investigator in the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. She will start her fellowship in Bethesda, Maryland, after graduation. VanTries plans to pursue admittance to medical school during her fellowship, fulfilling a requirement of the program and taking her one step closer to her lifelong ambition of being a doctor.