2007 APSA New York Regional Meeting breakout session
Eric Carlsen is a fourth year MD-PhD student at UTMB. He studied Cellular and Molecular Biology at Ohio University and graduated in 2008. He was inspired to pursue the MD/PhD program after participating in a Chagas Disease Control Program in 2006 and 2007. His lab studies how the immune system recognizes Leishmania as well as how the parasite tries to avoid such recognition.