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Griffith Receives Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Award
May 2004 — Brian Griffith, a medical student and HHMI Research Training Fellowship recipient at the Duke University Medical Center received an Apha Omega Alpha (AOA) award for his poster presentation entitled: "Production of the infectious particle of Cryptococcus neoformans: definition of the mating-type locus sexual cycle transcriptome." Griffith received the award for outstanding poster presentation, which summarized his last eight months of research in the laboratory of Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, at this year’s AOA day on Tuesday, May 11, 2004.
Each year, the Duke Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) sponsors this event as a forum for third-year medical students to share their research experiences with faculty and students in the Duke community. Another important goal of this event is to help first- and second-year students make thoughtful decisions about the path they wish to pursue during their third and fourth years in medical school.
