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Christian Lantz ’21, a biochemistry & molecular biology major, was named a 2020—2021 Goldwater Scholar by The Barry Goldwater Scholarship in Education Foundation. The national Goldwater Scholar award recognizes undergraduate researchers for truly exceptional work and provides up to $7,500 a year to help cover costs associated with their remaining undergraduate studies. Lantz, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry through the National Institute of Health’s Oxford Cambridge Scholars Program, conducted undergraduate research with four LVC professors. In fall 2019, Lantz worked with LVC immunologist Dr. Courtney Lappas on “Exploring the Effect of Vitamin D on T-Cell Functionality.” That same semester, he worked with LVC biochemist Dr. Walter Patton on the “Development of Novel Papain and Pectinase Assays.”
Christian Lantz ’21 2020–2021 Goldwater Scholar 2
In summer 2019, Lantz received a prestigious research opportunity to work in the Perilla Laboratory of Dr. Juan Perilla at the University of Delaware. The team researched “Unveiling the Fragility of HIV-1 Using Neural Network and Electron Microscopy,” with Lantz working on the beginning stages of coding a neural network for HIV-1 particle recognition. Lantz also was selected to participate in the prestigious Stanford University Amgen Summer Research Program as a genetics scholar for summer 2020.
