Brilliant young Carcia Carson has set an outstanding record at Vanderbilt University, United States after emerging as the first-ever black person to earn a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the institution.
Carcia Carson, from Mississippi, made history as the first-ever Biomedical Engineering graduate from Vanderbilt University. She expressed her happiness about achieving the feat describing it as an opportunity to diversify more in the industry.
“I am honored to become the first to accomplish this feat. I look forward to diversifying my industry and continuing the discussion of representation in high-level research environments,” Carcia said.
Carcia earned her Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Jackson State University (JSU) after which she proceeded to Fisk University through their Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Programme.
Carcia obtained her master’s degree in Physics at Fisk University Program. She stated that she got exposed more to medical physics while she was at Fisk University.
She mentioned that now that she has made history at Vanderbilt University, she would focus her professional research on developing translational research in cancer vaccines and personalized immunotherapy.
Carcia mentioned that she was inspired to center on translational research after seeing her grandmother diagnosed with cancer and selected to undergo an immunotherapy clinical trial.
“Translational research is more likely to impact the treatment of cancer patients directly. That’s what I want to do. I want to have a direct hand in the treatment of cancer patients…I want to directly impact cancer patients with the hopes to improve the lives of people living with cancer,” she said.
