Keaton Fletcher chosen as DART Intern at Washington and Lee University

LEXINGTON, VA (05/08/2012)(readMedia)-- Keaton Fletcher of Littleton, Conn., 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 (NPC), a rare, degenerative and potentially fatal disease that affects school-age children.

Fletcher will intern at Sidney Weisner Laboratory of Genetic Neurological Disease at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y.

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.