Prarthana Dalal, 2011 International BioGENEius Challenge Winner

Prarthana Dalal, a freshman at Northwestern University from Leawood, Kan., presented her project that focuses on understanding treatment mechanisms for sickle cell disease, "Modeling of human non-deletional hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin conditions in β-globin locus transgenic mouse models." Prarthana's project concentrates on hemoglobingenetics and how sequence changes can affect fetal hemoglobin production in mouse models.