Editor’s Note: Reprinted with permission from MUSC. Reid Barker is the granddaughter of Hampton County residents Charles “Buddy” Phillips and Joanne Phillips, and the late Owen and Margie Barker, and the daughter of Rusty and Misty Barker.
Many undergraduate students, like Reid Barker at the College of Charleston, need to squeeze in research between classes or after work. This summer, she has both the time and support to make it her focus, thanks to a grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
As a research fellow at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, the rising senior will spend her summer in the lab of Casey Langdon, Ph.D., who has a dual appointment at Hollings and the Darby Children’s Research Institute at MUSC…