Erika Ebbel Bio Pg1
Erika Ebbel is a 2004 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology majoring in Chemistry and minoring in music. While attending Crystal Springs Uplands Middle and High School, she became interested in isolating natural antiviral products from an herb. Her project led to her involvement with many multinational companies and institutions including Stanford University, the San Mateo Public Health Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Applied Biosystems, and Genentech.
She was the recipient of a number of science awards, including the 3rd place Grand Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 1997. A three time winner of the California State Science Fair, she was also the recipient of the United States Navy Award. In 1998 she was the 1st place national winner of the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium and in 1999 she became an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist and winner of the 1999 California State Student and Project of the Year awards at the California State Science Fair.
At MIT she was involved in virology, analytical chemistry, and molecular biology research. She was awarded 3rd place at the 2000 MIT Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium and was invited to be a poster presenter at the 48th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in Long Beach, California in June of 2000. She also worked for MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and presented research on novel anti-viral therapies. In 2003 she was nominated as a recipient of the United States Achievement Academy National Sciences Award, and has been inducted into two honor societies at MIT, which include the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and the National Scholars Honor Society.
