For the next four years, recent Northeastern University graduate Laurel Walsh will divide her time between the United Kingdom and the United States as she pursues an accelerated doctorate in biomedical research under the prestigious NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program.
“It’s a scholarship and Ph.D. program wrapped into one,” said Walsh, who graduated from Northeastern in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and a minor in art.
Walsh will work with a mentor at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, for two years and with another mentor during her two years at Oxford University, which is the institution that will grant the doctoral degree, under the terms of the scholarship program.
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