Hendrix College Senior Earns Award for Research Presentation
CONWAY, Ark. (February
4, 2021) Hendrix College student Zeihkia Byrd ’21, a biochemistry/molecular
biology major from Maumelle, Arkansas, has won an award for her oral
presentation in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology category at the 2020 Annual
Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. At the conference, held remotely in
November, Byrd presented a talk titled “Computational Analysis of Potential
Drug Antagonists Binding to a Model of the Human Kappa Opioid Receptor.”
Her presentation summarized
research she performed during the summer of 2020 under the guidance of Hendrix
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. Caitlin Scott.
“I’m very proud