INBRE scholars on campus – meet Douglas Deever

Twenty-six students from 10 different undergraduate and community college programs have joined the Institutional Development Award Program (IDeA) Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)/ Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) program.

Douglas Deever

Established in 2001, the BRIN program was created to expose students to serious biomedical research, build a statewide biomedical research infrastructure between undergraduate and graduate institutions and to strengthen each undergraduate institution’s infrastructure and increase its capacity to conduct cutting-edge biomedical and behavioral research.

Today we meet Douglas Deever.

Tell me about yourself. Who are your heroes?

I am from Topeka, Kan., and attend Creighton University with a major in biochemistry. I will be a junior in the fall. My heroes are my father Robert Deever and Jonas Salk.

What are your career goals?

My career goals are to serve as a medical doctor in the U.S. Air Force and work in the field of virology.

How did you become interested in science?

I first became interested in science as a young child reading about dinosaurs and how science could reconstruct their environment.

What do you hope the INBRE program will do for you?

I hope INBRE will teach me how to do research and deliver it to an audience.

How do you see science evolving over the next 20 years?

I see science growing in the biomedical field with a lot of research being done in genetic engineering.