Robert Vestal chosen as DART Intern at Washington and Lee University

LEXINGTON, VA (05/08/2012)(readMedia)-- Robert Vestal of Memphis, Tenn., 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.

Vestal will intern at the Brown/Goldstein Lab in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

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.