Dr. Joel Blankson first learned about M.D.-Ph.D. programs as he was finishing college. Now a leading expert on HIV pathogenesis and a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, he found the opportunity to create his own educational odyssey, culminating in both degrees—one in medicine, one in a laboratory science—irresistible.
Friederike Buck, fifth year student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, has received an F31 Research Award from the National Institutes of Health. This award will support Ms. Buck's research in the Bargmann Lab at The Rockefeller University.
