A Western Illinois University Chemistry graduate student has been offered a doctoral degree program position at the United States’ first comprehensive cancer center in New York.
Funmilola Favour Anjorin, of Macomb, will graduate in May with a master’s degree in Chemistry. She said cancer research has been one of her passions for several years, and she came to Western after learning about work being done here by Associate Professor of Chemistry Mette Soendergaard.
“I have been researching cancer since 2015, and I applied to WIU because Dr. Mette Soendergaard was using phage display technology to find possible solutions to cancer diagnosis and treatment,” Anjorin said. “This interested me and I applied to WIU.”
Funmilola has already published several academic papers on breast and prostate carcinomas. She also recently presented her work on the pancreatic cancer cell line specificity of phage display selected peptide MCA-1 at the American Chemical Society conference held in Indianapolis, IN.
During her doctoral work at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY, Funmilola hopes to “find answers to curtailing cancer deaths in the years to come and to achieve that.”
“I decided to further my education by getting a Ph.D. in cancer sciences at one of the renowned comprehensive cancer centers, Roswell Park,” she added.
For more information about the Chemistry program at WIU, visit wiu.edu/chemistry.
***Courtesy of Western Illinois University***
