Jina Park chosen as DART Intern at Washington and Lee University

LEXINGTON, VA (05/08/2012)(readMedia)-- Jina Park of Duluth, Ga., a junior at Washington and Lee University, has been chosen a Dana's Angels Research Trust (DART) intern. DART is a summer research internship program developed at W&L that aims to cure Neimann-Pick Type C.

Park will intern in the Section on Molecular Dysmorphology program at the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md.

DART was founded in 2002 by W&L graduate Phil Marella and his wife Andrea of Greenwich, Conn., after they learned that two of their four children were afflicted with NPC. With only 200 cases currently diagnosed in the U.S. it is a challenge to secure the research and funding support they need in their search for a cure for NPC.