Catherine M. Bridges, M.D., Ph.D., has been named a winner of the prestigious Lasker Foundation Essay Contest. According to the Lasker Foundation, the winning submissions were selected from essays penned by biomedical graduate students and health profession trainees. This year’s trainees were asked to identify a specific unmet need in biomedical knowledge or a scientific question that is insufficiently addressed in biomedical research today.
The winning essays will be published by The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) and Lasker. This year, the Foundation received 167 submissions from 19 countries. Each of the five winners will receive a $5,000 stipend to offset educational expenses and is invited to the annual Lasker Foundation luncheon in September.
As a member of the Medical University of South Carolina’s (MUSC) College of Medicine Class of 2024, and graduate of the Medical Scientist Training Program and the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research (SCTR) Institute’s TL1 Program, Dr. Bridges is now in her transitional year internship at Lexington Medica Center and has matched to the University of Alabama Birmingham in Diagnostic Radiology.
