Sudha Karthigeyan, a 2nd year BME, LCIB undergraduate student has been accepted to the UROP International program (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) and awarded a research scholarship of $2500. This ten week research internship will take place in Aachen, Germany and the project will focus on evaluation of novel DNA methylation markers for early breast cancer detection from blood serum. UROP is a highly competitive, international program which only accepts 30 students annually. Sudha is currently advised by Professor Anant Madabhushi.