Biography

Drake Dixon (CLAS, 2018) graduated with a major in Chemistry with a specialization in Biochemistry. Drake completed research in the Pompano Lab and received two College Science Scholar Summer Research Scholarship Awards as well as grants for summer research from the Department of Chemistry and the University of Virginia (UVA) NanoSTAR. Drake completed two projects during his time at UVA, one of which used a glucose analog to detect changes in the metabolic state of lymph node cells, and the other used boron-based nanoparticles to detect differences in oxygen tension within live lymph node tissue slices. Drake will matriculate into the University of Virginia Medical School this Fall.