N&M graduate student Lauren Clark or the Attie Lab has been awarded the prestigious F31 Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. Lauren’s project will explore the genetic drivers that control insulin secretion. Her research hopes to build on our understanding of how insulin is controlled and how pathways can be manipulated to alter insulin secretion.
Along with her doctoral research, Lauren is completing a certificate in the Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) in the Department of Nutritional Sciences.
“For my Ph.D. work, I wanted to be in a basic science research lab to learn the foundations of human metabolism and disease…To broaden my training, I will complete a DPD certificate and a 1-year internship after I graduate to become a Registered Dietician. This will give me the clinical credentials that I need to do more patient-focused research in the future.” – Lauren Clark
