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International Student Brings New Perspective To Baylor It was the dream of becoming a scientist that prompted Baylor College of Medicine graduate student Sergy Lemeshko to leave his home in the Ukraine. Now a second-year Ph.D. student in Baylor's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Lemeshko brings to the program a strong background in the biomedical, physical, and mathematical sciences. He sees the great diversity in Baylor's graduate school as an important part of science, adding to the overall intellectual environment in which the students work. "The United States is a very good place to pursue a career in science," Lemeshko says. "When the Soviet Union broke up, science didn't have much support, and I saw little opportunity for me there." In the Ukraine, Lemeshko had completed four years of medical school at Kharkov State Medical University and four years of the radiophysics program at Kharkov State University when an unusual opportunity came knocking on his door. A curriculum vitae he had sent to a friend who was studying in the United States made its way to St. Norbert College in Wisconsin. He was accepted and granted a full, five-year scholarship to the college, where he went on to earn a bachelor of science degree, with honors, in biology. Lemeshko then enrolled in Baylor's molecular physiology & biophysics program, where he received one of the graduate school's highest honors when he was named a 1997/98 BRASS (Baylor research advocates for Student Scientists) Scholar. Currently, he is working in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Hogan where he plans to develop and utilize the new DNA chip technology to assay levels of gene activities in the central nervous system. "Sergy is one of only a few students who start their graduate training strongly focused on a specific research problem," says Scott F. Basinger, Ph.D., assistant dean for extramural affairs in the graduate school of biomedical sciences. "His background and training are outstanding, and we consider him to have great potential as a future innovator in biomedical research." - ANGELA MENDOZA Courtesy of Texas Medical Center News
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