Tracey Quinlan Dougherty

Even as a high school student, Avanthi Raghavan, C’12, G’12, knew her way around a laboratory. Through her school’s science mentoring program, she worked for three years in a biomedical lab at the University of Central Florida, where she helped examine the transport of proteins key to the survival and virulence of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. Her work earned her recognition as the second author of a study published in Eukaryotic Cell, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

“Being at the edge of medicine was very appealing to me,” she says. “Working in that lab was a big part of my decision to join Vagelos when I got to Penn. I wanted to continue on that research-oriented track.”

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