Lauren Garcia, ECU BS Environmental Health (BSEH) and Honors College student, presented today her research poster titled, “Uterine Fibroid Myocyte Life Cycle Phase Formation in Fibroid Spheroids using 3D Co-cultures of Human Uterine Leiomyoma Cells and Myofibroblasts” during the virtual 2022 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Summer Internship Program Poster Session. She presented her poster with other 37 interns from various U.S. universities. The research work she presented was part of her summer internship with the 2022 Summer Internship Program (SIP) at the NIEHS in Raleigh/Durham, NC.

The Summer Internship Program at NIEHS is part of the National Institutes of Health Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research (NIH SIP). NIEHS is located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The Summer Internship Program provides internships to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing careers in the biomedical/biological sciences to work on a research project that entails exposure to the latest biochemical, molecular, and analytical techniques in a given field.