ChanHee Mok, MS, a PhD candidate, won the 3rd annual University of Kentucky (UK) Department of Veterinary Science’s Three-Minute Thesis (3-MT) competition for PhD candidates (i.e., post-qualifying examination) on April 12 at the UK Gluck Equine Research Center, in Lexington.

Mok used Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken” as an analogy to explain the developmental fate of cells that synthesize joint cartilage. Mok’s advisor is James MacLeod, VMD, PhD, John S. and Elizabeth A. Knight Chair and professor at the Gluck Center. Mok earned a master’s in equine nutrition from UK and a bachelor’s in animal nutrition from Konkuk University in South Korea. She hopes to finish her doctoral degree in 2020.

Jasmin Bagge, DVM, a dual degree PhD candidate, finished, second and Wangisa Dunuwille, MSc, BVSc, a PhD candidate, finished third. MacLeod is also Bagge’s advisor. Udeni Balasuriya, PhD, is Dunuwille’s advisor