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A young undergrad at UNR has been selected to receive a fellowship through NIH called the MARC - Maximizing Access to Research Careers. This provides partial or full tuition, a $15K stipend per year, and complete coverage of travel and research expenses. In exchange, students commit to earning a biomedical degree.
Riley Gillis will be obtaining an MD-PhD, and at 19 he's already been published. Shortly after graduating high school last year, his paper studying trends of obesity comorbidities was included in the Nevada State Undergraduate Research Journal.
His second manuscript provides recommendations for prevention of Ebola in sub-Saharan Africa and will be released later this month through Columbia University.
A pretty big deal when you consider most scientists aren't able to publish as a first author until at least their final year of graduate school.
Gillis is currently a researcher at the Center for Molecular Medicine, working to develop and purify monoclonal antibodies for the production of rapid diagnostic tests. His mentor, Dr. David AuCoin, runs a lab focusing on biodefense.
"Targeting microbial antigens for diagnostic and therapeutic applications."
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