Meet Biomedical Sciences PhD student Ryan Rakoczy

Ryan Rakocxy earned his undergraduate degree  from Wright State in Psychology with a concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience, and his Master's from WSU in Neuroscience and Physiology,. He is currently in his first semester of the BMS PhD program. Rakoczy was accepted into the program in February 2017 and started in the Fall of 2018.

Rakoczy worked in the laboratory of Chris Wyatt, PhD., where they studied the carotid bodies: tiny little organs that "sense" how much oxygen and carbon dioxide is in your arterial blood supply. If blood CO2 gets too high or O2 too low, the carotid bodies send