University of Tennessee Health Science Center medical student Charles Allderdice is pictured at the Southern Regional meeting of the American Federation for Medical Research in New Orleans, where he presented research earlier this year.As summer jobs go, it was certainly a resume enhancer.
Charles Allderdice of Signal Mountain, who had just finished his first year of medical school at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, was selected to participate in a National Institutes of Health grant study last summer. He presented his team’s findings over the winter at the Southern regional meeting of the American Federation for Medical Research in New Orleans and had an abstract of the study listed in the February issue of the Journal of Investigative Medicine.
“There are certain doctors on the UT faculty [who] are involved with studies the NIH helped fund,” he said. “You have to apply, make a proposal and then be approved.”
Dr. Karl T. Weber, the Neuton Stern Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine, led the studies.
According to information from the school, the educator has been involved with federally funded research for 40 years.