Student team investigates heart disease Vol. Project director Harold B. White, chemistry and biochemistry, said HHMI scholars are involved in a variety of projects, generally with one or two undergraduate research scholars working on a project with a faculty adviser.
Students are very focused on one area of research.
But, this group of seven, White said, with four other undergraduate researchers, worked together under the supervision of four faculty members and three postdoctoral fellows on different approaches to the same problem, to determine the root causes of heart disease. It was a cohesive group that even spent free time together, he said. David C. Usher led the faculty team, which included William J. Cain, Robert C. Hodson and Gregory A. Stephens, all biological sciences. The seven HHMI scholars worked with two Peter White Fellowship students and two Science and Engineering Fellowship scholars. That causes the breakdown and removal of triglycerides from the fat cells to be retarded.