Vicksburg’s Mattie C. Derivaux spent part of her summer attending the Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) through the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she is a rising M2 student.

Derivaux’s MSRP project was one of eight selected for  an oral presentation at MSRP Discovery Day, which took place on the final day of the program. Her presentation was then selected as the Most Outstanding Oral Presentation at Discovery Day.

Derivaux is a 2019 honor graduate of St. Aloysius High School, where she was the class valedictorian and won the Spirit Award.

She attended the University of Mississippi, majoring in biochemistry and finished as an honor graduate.

Upon completion of her first year of medical school, Derivaux took part in the MSRP, where she worked in the Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia (MIND) Center under her mentors, including Dr. Srishti Shrestha, Dr. Gwen Windham, Dr. Kevin Sullivan, and Dr. Michael Griswold.

Derivaux is the daughter of Allen Derivaux.