Ariel Helms Named Truman Scholar »
As a Honors College Scholar, Max Kade Fellow and Research Team Member at the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, Ariel dreams of finding cures for diseases through research and through recruiting the next generation of scientists into the STEM fields. Ariel is a Molecular & Cellular Biology major with a Chemistry minor and is planning to become a physician-scientist. She is the Founder and President of the Scientific Immersion & Mentorship Program, which is an undergraduate research program at Vanderbilt. As a tribal member of the Cherokee Nation, Ariel aims to integrate biomedical research into tribal healthcare networks and to recruit and train minorities in the STEM fields in an effort to preserve the health of the Native community.
Ariel Helms recognized by Goldwater Foundation »
Helms studies the role of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in pancreatic beta cells in the laboratory of Dr. Alvin C. Powers. The goal of this ongoing research is to characterize the role of CFTR in cystic fibrosis-related diabetes.
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