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Sara Gallegos

Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Scholar

Sara Gallegos is an LSAMP Scholar and senior biochemistry major from Woodbridge Virginia. She has been participating in computational research within the Bevan and Brown Lab since her freshman year. Her research work encompasses studying aggregation within molecules that leads to Alzheimer's and Type II Diabetes. She is very passionate about this research and the experience has taught her that biochemistry, as a major, is much more diverse than one would expect. Sara is also an HHMI student fellow and a member of Latin Link here at Virginia Tech.