Rylie Hightower, BSN, RN, a graduate student in Pediatric Neurology, has been selected as a 2017-2018 Civitan Emerging Scholar by the Civitan International Research Center (CIRC). This one-year award is granted to graduate students or postdoctoral fellows whose research is helping to advance the mission of the CIRC, enhancing our current understanding of brain development, impaired cognitive and intellectual development, and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. Rylie is a Neuroscience PhD graduate student in the laboratory of Matthew S. Alexander, Ph.D. Her newly-funded research will explore the function of an important non-coding RNA in the clinical and pathological disease progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Rylie Hightower Selected as a Civitan International Research Center Emerging Scholar
Rylie Hightower, BSN, RN, a graduate student in Pediatric Neurology, has been selected as a 2017-2018 Civitan Emerging Scholar by the Civitan International Research Center (CIRC). This one-year award is granted to graduate students or postdoctoral fellows whose research is helping to advance the mission of the CIRC, enhancing our current understanding of brain development, impaired cognitive and intellectual development, and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. Rylie is a Neuroscience PhD graduate student in the laboratory of Matthew S. Alexander, Ph.D. Her newly-funded research will explore the function of an important non-coding RNA in the clinical and pathological disease progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.