Student Creates TB Drug Implant

Shortly after Britni Lonesome was accepted into Justin Hanes' chemical engineering lab, he asked her to present to the lab group. Then a high-school senior, Lonesome was to explain her new project: making a plastic implant that could release medication, continuously and consistently for three months, into the bloodstream of a tuberculosis patient.Her talk was impressive, "from the professionalism of her slides to how prepared and lucid she was," says Hanes, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the Whiting School. "And that was early on. So I knew that she was going to be something special."Read more at...Johns Hopkins Magazine, November 2006.