Westerville North graduate Phillip Craigmile has been selected to study in Bonn, Germany
Westerville North High School graduate Phillip Craigmile, now a sophomore studying biological sciences in the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University (OU), has won the DAAD RISE award, a German internship program based in Bonn. As such, he will travel to Germany this summer and work in a research lab with a graduate student to characterize the mechanism that causes lung cancer radio resistance. Craigmile has been researching radiation therapy and its effectiveness in breast cancer patients while working for ShinHee Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at OU. The DAAD RISE award is prestigious because it allows undergraduates in STEM fields an all-expense-paid, hands-on research internship in Germany.
Craigmile’s mother, Connie, said, “Phillip benefited from a well rounded education in Westerville that challenged him academically with AP classes and calculus at Otterbein, as well as gave him opportunities to play sports, be involved in music and drama, do service projects and hold leadership roles. The teachers and administrators who provided the opportunities and encouraged him along the way helped to mold him into the young man that he has become.”