South Carolina State University senior I Ayana Sanders presented her research on prostate cancer and human papillomavirus (HPV) for a second time at the Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association (PMDPA) Convention.
Dr. Linda Bell is originally from El Paso, Texas. Her parents, Wesley and Gladys Wilson, encouraged her early interest in science, eventually leading her to seek a degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Texas at Austin, and later, a medical degree from UT Southwestern at Dallas, where she also completed training in internal medicine. She was one of only five African Americans in her medical school class of 200, and the only African American in her internal medicine residency program.