Patrick McCarter, graduate student in the Elston lab was highlighted in Student Profiles on the School of Medicines’ Vital Signs News April 23, 2015.
“When you sit in the sun, or undergo chemotherapy, or age, or eat certain foods, millions of cells in your body respond. They must respond. They’re preprogrammed to respond because they need to survive. Sometimes, though, these adaptive responses go haywire and can play roles in diseases as diverse as cancers, Alzheimer’s disease, and gastrointestinal disorders.Graduate student Patrick McCarter studies the mechanisms that control the responses inside cells. He wants to know how cellular signaling pathways operate in simple organisms, such as yeast, so that he can one day better understand the cell signaling underpinnings of human diseases.
We sat down with Patrick for a Student Profile to find out about where he’s from, why he chose biomedical research, and what he’s been working on at the UNC School of Medicine.” (except from School of Medicine Vital Signs April 23, 2015)
Read more about Patrick, his research and how he came to be at UNC.