Sylvia Szwedo presents research at state conference

2017 Nov 27

Sylvia Szwedo, a chemistry major from Little Rock, AR, was among a group of science scholars at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to present research at the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Conference Oct. 27-28 in Fayetteville.

The Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Arkansas INBRE) is funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program of the National Institutes of Health. The Arkansas INBRE aims to promote biomedical research in Arkansas.

"The INBRE conference is the premier undergraduate research conference in STEM in the Tri-state area (Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma)," said Dr. Jim Winter, co-director of the Science Scholars and Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation at UA Little Rock. "We are pleased that our students participated and gained a rewarding experience. We look forward to having students present at this conference every year."

During the conference, Szwedo presented “Isolating exosomes using tumor-specific antibodies in the serum and abdominal fluid as a step towards an ovarian cancer screening method."