Chris Scull
B.S., Chemistry
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
 
Although I was born in Canada, I’ve spent most of my life in North Carolina.  I first lived in Raleigh, but I’ve been in Chapel Hill since I started as an undergraduate in 1999.  My love for travel prompted me to spend my junior year in Grenoble, France at the University of Joseph Fourier.  After receiving my chemistry degree in 2003 I spent a summer as a visiting researcher at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.  I returned to Chapel Hill in the fall of 2003 to work as a lab technician for Dr. Thomas Fischer in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 

I started graduate school in the fall of 2004 in the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences program.  Knowing my research interests were in cardiovascular biology, I rotated with Dr. Susan Smyth in the physiology department and Dr. Frank Church in the pathology department.  For my dissertation research, I have rejoined the lab of Dr. Thomas Fischer, located at the Francis Owen Blood Research Lab.  My research interests are primarily in platelet biology.  I am particularly interested in the interactions of blood platelets with other cells at wound sites and sites of inflammation.  A long term goal of our research is to better stabilize vascular wound sites. 

When I’m not busy doing school stuff and having fun at the lab, you might find me riding on an ambulance with Orange County EMS or volunteering with South Orange Rescue Squad.  I also enjoy exercising, traveling, and getting together with friends on Franklin Street. 
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