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PhD Candidate Seeks to Develop First Clinically Approved Antifungal Vaccine

By December 12, 2022No Comments

Maureen Hester, a PhD candidate in the immunology and microbiology program of the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, got an undergraduate internship in a UMass Chan laboratory through bold means: cold emailing. While a senior majoring in biology and biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic University, she contacted Stuart M. Levitz, MD, professor of medicine, and he responded to her email.