I grew up in Kalamazoo, MI, and was given the opportunity to attend Michigan State University as an early beneficiary of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship. Before the announcement of the Promise, I did not have aspirations for college or university education. However, from the announcement and ensuing receipt of that gift, I was instilled with a sense of responsibility and obligation to take advantage of this gift for a good greater than myself. This has manifested in my professional trajectory through scientific outreach, mentorship, teaching, and advancement of medicine – resulting in my completion of a doctorate in bioengineering, research publications, and my current position developing nano-enabled therapeutics at the premier cancer institution in the world, MD Anderson Cancer Center. 

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If you’d like to reach out to me related to my research please send me an email: Aaron [dot] SchwartzDuval [at] MDAnderson [dot] org