Headed To Harvard: LIU bio students to showcase research at Harvard
Two LIU Brooklyn biology majors have earned a major science honor: Martha Lewis and Kimaada Allete, both from East Flatbush, have been selected to present their work at the New England Science Symposium on March 2.
The prestigious symposium, which provides a forum for college students to share their biomedical and health-related research through oral and poster presentations, will take place at Harvard Medical School.
Lewis and Allette are members of LIU Brooklyn’s Minority Biomedical Research Support-Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (MBRS/RISE) program, which promotes minority participation in the sciences.
“I’ve done a lot of presentations in different places but this means a lot, because it’s Harvard,” said Martha Lewis, 27, who will graduate in May with a B.S. in biology and a minor in chemistry. Last April, she presented at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) at the group’s annual meeting in San Diego.
Lewis’ poster presentation will feature research she conducted last summer during an internship at Penn State University College of Medicine. She investigated different pathways to preventing and treating skin cancer, using the drugs Rapamycin and Torin.