Scientists-in-Training Impress at Virtual Event
Monday, May 10, 2021
Despite the challenges of working during a global pandemic, IRP scientists continue to make groundbreaking discoveries and mentor the next generation of researchers. This includes the hundreds of recent college graduates conducting research in NIH labs through the Postbaccalaureate IRTA program. On April 28, 29, and 30, many of these budding scientists presented the fruits of their efforts at this year’s virtual Postbac Poster Day. Read on to learn about a small sampling of the scientific strides NIH’s postbacs are making.
Malcom Udeozor: Training Participants to Pilot Prosthetic Limbs
After completing his undergraduate education at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Malcom returned home to Maryland and joined the lab of IRP senior investigator Christopher Baker, Ph.D. Dr. Baker’s lab focuses on how learning changes the brain, and Malcolm is working specifically on a project led by a graduate student in his lab, Hunter Schone, to investigate the effects of learning to control a prosthetic limb.