Dr. Barbara Detrick ’65 Endowed Scientific Scholarship at Caldwell University is Aimed at Developing Future Scientific Leaders

Established in 2021 by Barbara Detrick, the Dr. Barbara Detrick ’65 Endowed Scientific Scholarship provides support for the retention and graduation of a high achieving student, majoring in biology, chemistry, or related sciences for the purposes of funding science-related research and scholarship. Eligible candidates will be selected by a faculty committee from the Department of Natural Sciences faculty in the Caldwell University School of Arts and Sciences.

This endowed scholarship promotes the development of students majoring in biology, chemistry, or related sciences, who, in the future, may assume leadership roles in science and who will serve as a model for the next generation of scientists.

Specifically, this endowment facilitates an environment that supports the growth of Caldwell University undergraduate students’ basic science research and enhances their professional skills, including expanding their professional opportunities in the future in academia and industry. This endowment may be used to support funding for the purchase of research reagents and equipment, textbooks, or for students to attend and present their findings at professional basic scientific meetings or workshops.

“We are grateful for the generosity of Dr. Barbara Detrick ’65, for this transformational scholarship, which will provide additional opportunities for our students to expand the scope of their work in the classroom and the laboratory,” said Phillip Keefe, Caldwell University Vice President for Institutional Advancement. “Dr. Detrick has a long-standing commitment to Caldwell and our students and this contribution reinforces her loyalty and dedication to the University.”

Barbara Detrick, ’65, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Pathology and former director of the Immunology Laboratory and Cytokine Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Detrick is a clinical immunology scientist who is internationally recognized for her broad laboratory and clinical as well as basic, translational and applied research accomplishments in the field of immunology.

Prior to joining Hopkins, she conducted research at the National Institutes of Health and served as Chief of Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the George Washington University. Her research efforts have focused mainly in two areas: clinical immunology with emphasis on cytokine biology in immune diseases and ocular immunology.

Dr. Detrick has published more than 125 peer-reviewed papers and invited reviews in the field of immunology and has authored four textbooks as well as 27 book chapters. She is the Editor of the Manual of Molecular and Clinical Laboratory Immunology, 7^th, 8^th and 9^th Editions. This is the international authoritative guide for clinical laboratory immunology.

Moreover, she is a co-discoverer of the RPE65 protein which led the way to development of the RPE 65 gene therapy for a pediatric retinal degenerative disease. In a continuing effort to foster excellence in science, in the basic, translation and clinical fields, Dr. Detrick provides this scholarship to young next-generation scientists at Caldwell University.

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