Undergraduate Published in Nature

Prep undergraduate Latoya Stewart (P9 XX/Deerfield '11, Harvard) was published in the international science journal Nature for research she helped conduct at her New York Stem Cell Foundation internship last summer. She was part of a research team that developed a nuclear genome transfer technique to prevent certain inherited diseases. The discovery was recently covered in this article in Time magazine.  (The paper’s abstract can be found here.)
Latoya’s interest in the life sciences and research runs deep. A Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology major, she will spend next semester as an observer in the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Unit at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.  Her previous summer internships were in clinical research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and in the Department of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical School conducting diabetes research. When she’s not in the lab or classroom, the Queens resident performs ballet with Harvard's OFA dance group and is a member of the Kuumba Singers.

After learning about the news, Latoya reflected, “I wouldn’t be where I am today without Prep.  It has played an integral role in my education: from sending me to one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, to helping with the college admissions process, to connecting me with three great summer science internships.”

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