{"id":26,"name":"Elizabeth Christine Lee","url":"","description":"Elizabeth is a medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine.  She graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors from The George Washington University with a B.S. in Biology.  During her college career, she studied amylin cytotoxicity in type II diabetes as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellow.  Before entering medical school, she worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Postbaccalaureate Research Fellow, studying natural killer cell signaling at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and cancer immunotherapy at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).  She also broadened her knowledge on health disparities through the NIH Academy Health Disparities Program.  As a medical student, she developed an interest in serving the rare and neglected disease community through her work with the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP).  Her motto in life is, \"Never lose your ability to smile even through dark times.\"","link":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/author\/elizabeth\/","slug":"elizabeth","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/205093f1953e602ac83e26168a1d2a9d?s=24&d=mm&r=r","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/205093f1953e602ac83e26168a1d2a9d?s=48&d=mm&r=r","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/205093f1953e602ac83e26168a1d2a9d?s=96&d=mm&r=r"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}