Medical student receives prestigious fellowship to research nerve injury

medical student smiles at earning fellowship — Washington University medical student Alexandra Keane (center), who received a summer research fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society, is shown with Morton E. Smith, MD, and Alison K. Snyder-Warwick, MD.

Alexandra Keane, who this fall will begin her second year as a medical student at Washington University School of Medicine, is among 50 recipients of a $5,000 summer research fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society.

The Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship Award supports Keane’s research on neuromuscular junction recovery following peripheral nerve injury, which affects more than 20 million people in the U.S. and can result in weakness, loss of function or paralysis.

Read more on the School of Medicine site.