April 1, 2009
Eric Butter, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was selected by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to attend a workshop for academically talented, undergraduate and graduate students performing research in allergy, immunology, and infectious diseases.
Only 23 students were selected out of 203 applicants for the Intramural NIAID Research Opportunities program. The four-day workshop, held Feb. 2-5, gave students the opportunity to learn about research and training opportunities in NIAID’s Division of Intramural Research, hear scientific lectures and participate in informal discussions with world-renowned researchers within the various NIAID laboratories, tour NIAID laboratories on the Bethesda and Rockville, Md., campuses, and interview with NIAID principal investigators looking to fill training positions.
Butter, who graduated from Seton Catholic Central High School in Vestal, N.Y., is a Robertson Scholar. He is pursuing a bachelor of science in public health, with majors in biostatistics and mathematics and a minor in Chemistry, at UNC-Chapel Hill and is also in the Modeling Biological Systems interdepartmental certificate program at Duke University. He has been conducting nanoparticles research since 2007 in the lab of Russ Mumper, PhD, the John A McNeill Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery.
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