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Dr. Varadarajan
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Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry
UNCW
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 I am currently a graduate student working
with Dr. Varadarajan, but I began my work here as one of his first
undergraduate students in late fall of 2003.
As an undergraduate I worked on a new methodology for developing the
DNA damaging compounds. For my
research as an undergraduate, I received the Undergraduate Research
Fellowship for Developing a New Methodology For Synthesizing Cell-Specific
DNA-Damaging Drugs. It was this
research that I presented at the ACS regional conference in Raleigh in
November 2004. It was for this trip
to Raleigh that I received the UNCW Undergraduate Travel Award. In the spring of 2005 I took my research
to Raleigh again for a presentation to the North Carolina senators at the
"Research in the Capital" undergraduate research symposium. Now as
a graduate student I am working on synthesizing and characterizing cytotoxic
compounds that will selectively target cells that over express the estrogen
receptor, like breast cancer cells. I
enjoy all the work I’ve done here in the lab and the experience has proved
invaluable to my academic career. I
have learned more in this lab over the past two and a half years than I have
in any class room over the past five years.
Dr. Varadarajan is one of the best, most caring professors that
encourages all of his students to achieve their highest potential. If it weren’t for Dr. V, I wouldn’t have
had as many outstanding opportunities. Not to mention that the people I work
with are great, and I feel I have made some lifelong friends.
Contact Info: hnl7811@uncw.edu
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