Student Research Week to Celebrate 30 Years
Call for Research Abstracts
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will host the 30th Annual Student Research Week March 20-23.
Every year, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences students organize Student Research Week to showcase the work of the next generation of biomedical researchers and invite distinguished national and international speakers to present discoveries on a specific theme. The theme for this year’s Student Research Week is “Protein Chronicles: From Unknown Structures to Essential Functions.”
This year’s Student Research Committee includes Antonia Stuebler, Riccay Elizondo, Derek Fleming and Whitni Redman. Guest speakers will be Francisco Bezanilla, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor at the University of Chicago, and Jane Richardson, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor from Duke University.
Submission for research abstracts opened January 8. Deadline for abstracts is February 12 with late submissions accepted no later than February 19.
For more information, visit www.ttuhsc.edu/biomedical-sciences/student-research-week/
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