Rebecca Gerth Brady ’02

Biology

     Rebecca is a microbiology staff fellow at the United States Food and Drug Administration in Bethesda, Maryland, where she performs research on bacterial vaccines and develops tests to measure immune responses. Dr. Charles Deutch, a professor at Elmira College who taught Microbiology and Molecular Biology, is one of the reasons Rebecca is a microbiologist. “He allowed me to do independent research in his laboratory,” Rebecca explains. “He taught me it is ok to fail and that most experiments do, and how to critically think about science. The research I did with Dr. Deutch proved to graduate schools that I was serious about my future and that I had the skills needed to hit the ground running in my dissertation studies.”