Angela Toepp, a doctoral student in epidemiology, recently participated in the Young Investigator Award contest at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s (ASTMH) annual meeting in Baltimore. This award encourages developing young scientists to pursue careers in various aspects of tropical disease research.

Toepp received Honorary Mention from the Vectorborne Disease Immunology and Epidemiology Section out of more than 20 contestants, and was one of 15 students honored in this way out of 200 entries into the contest. Toepp works in the Dr. Christine Petersen Laboratory and presented the vaccine trial work for which she has been the primary analyst, “Field trial to assess leishmaniosis vaccine effectiveness as a potential immunotherapy in asymptomatic dogs.”