Holly Preston

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Student researcher explores what's next for cancer drugs

It didn’t take long for biochemistry senior Claudette Fraire to get into a lab when she arrived at Texas Woman’s her first year of college. In a chemistry course taught by department chair Richard Sheardy, Ph.D., she learned about his research on DNA and cancer and asked if she could take part. “I work in DNA structure, trying to understand the molecular basis of cancer,” Sheardy said. “Claudette joined [fellow undergraduate student] Tra Nguyen to work on a project trying to understand how envi