Carcia Carson Becomes First Black Person to Earn PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University
Carcia Carson, a Jackson State University alumnus, has made history by becoming the first Black woman to earn a PhD in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University. Her dissertation focused on engineering cancer cell surfaces with nanomaterial drug carriers to enhance immunogenicity of whole cell-based cancer vaccines. Carson, who graduated from JSU in 2014 with a…