“Thanks to you, I will dedicate my life to curing cancer.”

Kayla Maxwell and her seven scholarships and academic awards made attending the UB pharmacy school affordable and gave her something just as precious: time.

“They have allowed me to use the time I would have been working to do research or be a teaching assistant in a cell biology class,” she said. A Provost Scholarship, given to academically accomplished freshmen, and a Grace Capen Award are just two of the academic accolades on the résumé of Maxwell, who plans to earn a doctorate of pharmacy and a PhD in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Donor support makes these financial incentives possible.

“My interest is in breast cancer because almost all the women in my family have been diagnosed with it,” Maxwell said. “I hope to work at a research-intensive cancer institution where I will be able to find a non-invasive procedure to detect breast cancer-susceptibility in patients and formulate pharmacokinetically a treatment plan.”
 

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