Christa Mathieu didn’t anticipate the steep learning curve she would face during her summer internship in the Pittsburgh Undergraduate Research Diversity Program at the University of Pittsburgh, but she was happy for the challenge.

Mathieu, a senior majoring in health services in the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Health Professions, worked in the lab of Mark E. Snyder, M.D., whose research principally focuses on pulmonary fibrosis and lung transplant rejection. The work was new to her, and she found that there was a great deal to learn and understand during her 10 weeks in the program.

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