My summer studying cancer research in New York - College of Arts and Sciences

Senior Kameryn Lloyd spent her summer studying how siRNA therapeutics could be a potential tool against cancer. In my time at UNC-Chapel Hill, I have fallen in love with research. Working in UNC School of Medicine Professor Chad Pecot’s lab studying cancer, asking questions, doing cool experiments, and interpreting and presenting the results has been an incredibly rewarding process. When I was accepted into the Mechanistic Biology Summer Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, I jumped at the opportunity. Mechanistic biology is about understanding the fundamental “why” behind how biological systems work, especially in cancer. The research I studied this past summer mirrored a lot of what I do on campus at Chapel Hill. In both labs, I studied siRNA therapeutics as a potential tool against cancer. siRNAs are synthetic molecules that bind to a specific RNA and cause it to be degraded before it can be turned into protein.

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