Emily Giddings Awarded National Institutes of Health Internship

2015 Apr 10

Castleton Biology student Emily Giddings was recently accepted into a highly competitive summer internship through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will be traveling to Baltimore, Maryland for several months this summer.

Giddings will be working for the National Institute on Aging, the Intramural Research Program and the Laboratory of Neurosciences on the molecular and biochemical changes that occur during aging and in disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and stroke.

The National Institutes of Health Internship is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services department and is the nations leading medical research agency. More than 80 percent of NIH's budget goes out to over 30,000 research personnel at over 2,500 universities and research institutions.