Drake Bishop, a recent graduate in H-SC’s Class of 2014, has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Dorothy Middleton Memorial Scholarship at Eastern Virginia Medical School.\u00a0 This prestigious award is given to one student from each year’s entering class of medical school and provides a full scholarship that is renewable for all 4 years of medical school.\u00a0 Since its establishment in 2011, two H-SC students have received the award (Barron Frazier ’12 was the recipient in 2012).\u00a0 Drake, a biology major and Summa Cum Laude graduate\u00a0with Departmental Honors at H-SC, received the Samual S. Jones Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Research for his Senior Honors Project on melanoma-associated suppression of dendritic cells.\u00a0 Since graduating, Drake has been a participant in the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters Summer Scholar Program at Eastern Virginia Medical School, where he has conducted research in the laboratory of Dr. Amy Tang on regulation of the K-RAS signaling pathway in lung cancer.\u00a0 He will begin his first year of medical school at EVMS this fall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drake Bishop, a recent graduate in H-SC’s Class of 2014, has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Dorothy Middleton Memorial Scholarship at Eastern Virginia Medical School.\u00a0 This prestigious award is given to one student from each year’s entering … Continue reading