Computational and Structural Biology in Biodefense (CSBB) Press Releases

Young researchers take time away from the lab to help young patients

HOUSTON – (March 9, 2007) – For the second year in a row, young Keck Center researchers from several institutions, including Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, UT Health Science Center-Housaton, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the UT Medical Branch at Galveston, exchanged lab coats for aprons and microscopes for spatulas as they prepared and served lunch to young patients and their families at the Ronald McDonald House-Houston on Friday, March 9.

Affiliated with the Gulf Coast Consortia/Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Research and Training, the students normally spend 10-12 hours per day in the lab working on research projects related to nanobiology, molecular biophysics, or pharmacoinformatics, projects that one day may lead to the design and discovery of more effective drugs to treat human cancers.  Volunteering at Ronald McDonald House gives them the chance to put a human face on diseases that ultimately benefit from their basic scientific research studies.

Keck Fellows serve lunch to Ronald McDonald House clients.