Alum to discuss ‘The Mystery of Metastasis’ in special lecture
FOR RELEASE: Sunday, October 14, 2012

Byrd, a 2009 biology graduate who is a Doctor of Dental Surgery candidate at the University of Michigan, is currently working in the area of diagnostic biomarkers in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in the Periodontics and Oral Medicine Department of the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan. He has also been accepted into the Ph.D. program in oral biology with a concurrent acceptance into the specialty program of periodontics at the University of North Carolina. Byrd says that he plans to have an academic career which combines research, teaching and practice.