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Reiya Hayden, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Markos Leggas, received the first-place award for her poster presentation at the annual American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics meeting on April 7, 2019. The title of her poster was “Mithramycin analogues disrupt ETS transcription factor DNA binding.”

A well-rounded student, Hayden was involved in many extracurricular activities and received a music scholarship to play with the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra as a violinist. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Biotechnology with a minor in music performance in 2011. Upon graduating, she obtained a Scientist position at Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) where she worked as an integral part of the Vaccine team for two and a half years.

In 2015 she joined Dr. Leggas’ lab. Her research is focused on understanding mechanistic evidence for the differences in biochemical activity among novel targeted therapies developed for the treatment of Ewing’s Sarcoma. Upon completion of her PhD, Hayden intends to pursue biomedical research opportunities in government and in the pharmaceutical industry.