DEGENERATION OF NEURONAL MITOCHONDRIA IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE: Mitochondrial Turnover in Neuromuscular Junctions of Parkin Mutants
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Kenny Nguyen is a junior majoring in neurobiology and physiology and minoring in psychology at Purdue University. He has been working in the Hollenbeck Lab since 2015, studying the degeneration of mitochondria in neurons and their implications in Parkinson’s disease. For the summer of 2015, he was selected as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) intern, and he received the William H. Phillips Undergraduate Research Grant from the Department of Biological Sciences. He has also interned at the National Institutes of Health, researching mitochondria traffi cking in neurodegenerative diseases. Nguyen plans to either pursue an MD, a PhD, or a career in the medical fi eld.
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