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Undergrad presents research at NIH symposium

4:22 p.m., May 11, 2005--Nicole Barkley, a junior biotechnology major, presented her research on advanced prostate cancer and factors in the bone that cause cancer cells to be restrained during chemotherapy at the Skeletal Complications of Malignancy Symposium, held April 28-30 at the National Institutes of Health’s Natcher Conference Center in Bethesda, Md.

The three-day symposium centered on cutting-edge pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of bone metastasis from breast cancer, prostate cancer and myeloma.

Barkley, whose faculty mentor is Carlton R. Cooper, assistant professor of biological sciences, is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute NUCLEUS Program scholar and a costudent coordinator of the program.

She also has been selected to participate, all expenses paid, in the Biotechnology Institute's Minority and Indigenous Fellows Program in Philadelphia in June.

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