Alana Curry won a prestigious McNair scholarship to spend the summer in Dr. Avery August's laboratory studying a mouse model of asthma.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
with World Class Faculty
Every student in Immunology and Infectious Disease is strongly encouraged to take advantage of the opportunities for independent study. Research can be for course credit or paid internship in the following areas:
- cancer and the immune system
- viral pathogenesis
- bacterial pathogenesis
- immune development
- nutritional regulation of immunity
- viral replication, regulation, and assembly
- drug action
- molecular epidemiology of foodborne pathogens
- human/animal disease transmission
- HIV/AIDS, asthma, malaria, polio, food poisoning, mumps, measles, and many other diseases