George Vo
Spring Intern 2008, The Biodesign Institute, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, Arizona State University (Tempe).

George Vo has been selected for a semester long internship at The Biodesign Institute Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccinology at ASU (Tempe), a center that leads a worldwide effort to tame Salmonella - a bacterium that is the leading cause of food poisoning - making it harmless and using it to treat a wide array of infectious diseases. The group's efforts are centered on the understanding of basic viral and bacterial infectious disease processes, and on the design and use of vaccines and protein therapeutics to combat infectious diseases such as pneumonia, hepatitis, tuberculosis, plague and human avian flu, among several others. Under the direction of Mehla Mellata, Vo will be producing a vaccine against E. coli by using Salmonella; he will isolate virulence factors of different strands of E. coli and then insert them into Salmonella to test their effects.

George Vo transferred to ASU in the Fall of 2007. He is a junior in the Molecular Biosciences & Biotechnology program at ASU. He plans to attend Graduate or Medical School.

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