Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Marissa McGilvery has a Ph.D. in biomedical science and is a postdoc at Johns Hopkins All Children’s in St. Petersburg under Dr. Martin Trapecar. When not in the lab, she is outside exploring nature and collecting bits of nature to include in her artwork.
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