Fred Kastenbaum PreHealth Award  recipients: Philip Feinberg,  Biochemistry ‘11 and DeAsia Gilmer, Biochemistry/Psychology ‘12

03/22/11

The award is to be used for assistance with preparation for the required standardized exams associated with admittance to graduate health programs such as: MCAT, DAT,  OAT, GRE.

• Philip Feinberg,  Biochemistry ‘11.   After experiencing the excitement of research, he quickly realized that medicine alone would not be enough. Phil hopes to attend a MD/PhD program so he can become a medical researcher.  Currently his greatest scientific and medical interest is the role that microRNAs play in the development and progression of cancer. As a MD/PhD, he would like to have a lab that looks to understand how microRNA deregulation results in cancer, and design novel therapeutics that could be used in the treatment of cancer. He would like to specialize in oncology and work to treat patients with various forms of cancer, while his lab works to identify potential drug targets. 

• DeAsia Gilmer, Biochemistry/Psychology ‘12.  DeAsia’s career goal is to become a neurosurgeon at a hospital in Baltimore, MD.  She has always wanted to become a doctor ever since she was child because she has always been amazed at how the nervous system works. She continues to be intrigued at how the tiny, cellular and molecular processes that occur in the nervous system, control the complex actions and behaviors that we perform.  She wants to become a doctor in order to help people with neurological disorders overcome their disease and maintain the best quality of life they can. DeAsia has recently begun volunteering at Cayuga Medical Center as a Patient Advocate with the Customer Relations department. In this position, she works closely with nursing staff to provide patients in the Emergency Department with the best quality stay by maximizing communication between staff and patients and providing comfort and support to patients and their families.

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