By Denise Moran For The Courier-News May 22, 2013 3:48PM

Sophia Kamran of Hampshire is shown in New York City near Memorial Sloan-Kettering recently where she will complete her one-year internship. Submitted photo.

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Updated: May 22, 2013 4:51PM

HAMPSHIRE Sophia Kamran, daughter of Hampshire Village Clerk Linda Vasquez, will be graduating from Harvard Medical School in Boston on May 30.

Kamran said that she first came to Hampshire from Streamwood with her mother and grandparents, Peter and Mary Vasquez, in 1996. She attended Hampshire Middle School for three years and Hampshire High School for one year before she enrolled at the Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy in Aurora.

I was involved in basketball, band and the gifted program at Hampshire Middle School, Kamran said. At Hampshire High School, I participated in marching band, the yearbook, the school newspaper, the high school musical, color guard, basketball, and track and field.

After Kamran graduated from IMSA, she was awarded a scholarship through The Gates Millennium Scholars so she could enroll at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated from MIT in 2008 with a double major in biology and biological engineering.

Kamran applied and was accepted at Harvard Medical School. During her fourth year there, she was awarded a fellowship through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to conduct research in hematology. During that year, she had several research papers published on various subjects including the genetics of hemoglobin switching, thyroid cancer, in vitro fertilization, and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors.

When you conduct research, publication is important in order to share information and data among scientists, Kamran said.

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Medical school graduate goes from Hampshire to Harvard