Justin Fraser, an honors student at NC A&T State University and an aspiring doctor, gained research experience at Duke University, working in a laboratory investigating a therapy for Parkinson’s Disease.
Fraser was also connected to a neurologist at Duke, kindling his interest in neuroscience.
The Summer Scholars Program in Genomic Science and Medicine at Duke University that gave Fraser those opportunities lost what was left of a $540,000 National Institutes of Health grant this year, one of dozens of academic programs at private and public universities across the country to lose federal funding for efforts to help increase diversity in medicine and biological sciences…