Current Students & Alumni
2019 CPRIT CURE Summer Undergraduates
Kano Amagai
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Greg Lizee
Hossein Bakhshandeh (CPRIT '17, '18)
Davidson College
Mentor. Dr. James P. Allison
Kian Behmard
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Georgios Karras
Juan Cerda
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Sean Post
Jodi Goldman
UCLA
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung
Rachael Johnson
Boston & Georgetown Universities
Mentor: Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Neetij Krishnan
Saint Olaf College
Mentor: Dr. Helen Piwnica-Worms
Nhi Le
University of Houston - Downtown
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal
Raj Malhotra
Rutgers University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson
Jessica Nye
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Jonathan Qi
Stanford University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Matthew Rosolen
University of Charleston
Mentor: Dr. Sendurai Mani
Antonio (Vitor) Souza
Dartmouth
College
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur
Divya Sundararajan
Bryn Mawr
College
Mentor: Dr. Curtis Pickering
Joey Toker
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Wargo
Melinda Wang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Tiffany (Adrianne) Wu
Mount Holyoke College
Mentor: Dr. Paul Scheet
Sima Arfania
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Navin
Mehdi Baqri
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Mackenzie Bruzzio
Kenyon College
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Zakaria Cherif
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Ameen Homayoon (CPRIT '18)
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Curtis Pickering
Justin Kim
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal
Nghi Lam
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Emma Lederer
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Emma McCollum
Washington University at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Diana Odhiambo (CPRIT '18)
Benedict College
Mentor: Dr. Roza Nurieva
Kanchana Raja
Columbia
University
Mentors: Drs. Jones and Cross
Leah Salinsky
University of Texas at
Austin
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
Carli Stewart (CPRIT '18)
Univ. Tennessee - Knoxville
Mentor: Dr. Michael Andreeff
Sophia Tang
University of
Chicago
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Anh Tran
Mount Holyoke College
Mentor: Dr. George Calin
Nicole Wright
Vanderbilt University
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Marcos Armendariz
University of Texas at El Paso
Mentor: Dr. Filippo Giancotti
Sarah Becker
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Robert C. Bast, Jr.
Miao Cao
University of Wisconsin -
Madison
Mentor: Dr.
Shao-Cong Sun
Sanaz Ghotbaldini (CPRIT '18)
University of California - Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Marina Konopleva
Alec Jacobson
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko
Anuradha Korukonda
Emory
University
Mentor: Drs. Jones & Fernandez
Emily Lasse
Purdue University - West Layfayette
Mentors: Drs. Jones and Geck Do
Samuel Liu
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Seyed Moghaddam
Gabriel Mesa
Wofford College
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Reshmi Patel
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson
Carolina Ramirez
Abilene Christian University
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Alexis Simmons
Baylor University
Mentor: Dr. Kristy Brock
Hannah Stumpf
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers
Mahima Thapa
Truman State University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Andreeff
Llaran Turner (CPRIT '18)
Hampton University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Haoyi Wu
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
CPRIT CURE Alumni
2018 Summer Alumni
Oluwapelumi (Esther) Akinwande
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Richard Behringer
Hossein Bakhshandeh
Davidson College
Mentor: Dr. James Allison
2019 Goldwater Scholar
Emily Caggiano
Ohio University '19
Mentor: Dr. Filippo Giancotti
Current: PhD Program, MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School
Allison Chang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Schluns
Ezzeddine (Ed) Elmir
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Robert Bast, Jr.
Sanaz Ghotbaldini
University of California at Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Marina Konopleva
Ameen Homayoon
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Nick Navin
Binisha Karki
Southeastern Louisiana University '19
Mentor: Dr. Willem Overwijk
Current: Research Assistant, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dowon Kim
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur
Samuel Oedi
University of Houston '19
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Current: PhD Program in Physics, University of Houston
Caleb Kroll
Brandeis University
Mentor: Andrew Futreal
Aaron (Asaph) Kupferman
University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Sophie Lu
Williams College '19
Mentor: Dr. Bin Wang
Current: Research Assistant, Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard Affiliated)
Marisela Martinez de Kraatz
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
Lindsey Mortensen
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Steven Lin
Eduardo Quesada-Diaz
University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
Mentor: Dr. Candelaria Gomez-Manzano
Srikar Ranga
University of Texas at Austin '19
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano
Current: Master's in Public Health Program, UT Health
Thomas Rubino
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Carli Stewart
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Mentor : Dr. Michael Andreeff
Yusha Sun
Princeton University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Connor Tou
University of California at Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
2019 Goldwater Scholar
Meng Han (Ashley) Wu
University of Arizona '19
Mentor: Dr. Sean Post
Current: PhD program, University of Colorado - Denver
Kaveh Zare
University of California at Irvine
Mentor: Dr. Gan Boyi
Madeleine Andreas
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Sendurai Mani
Karina Bursch
Catholic University
of America '19
Mentor: Dr. Powel
Brown
Current :
MSTP (MD/PhD Program) at Univeristy of Minnesota
Nathan Carroll
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. George Eisenhoffer
Nicholas DeCleene
Hillsdale College '19
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Current: PhD Program, Baylor College of Medicine
Karen George
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Carolyn Guan
Princeton University
Mentor: Dr. Ron DePinho
Efiyenia (Fenia) Kaparos
Georgia Institute of Technology '19
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Current: PhD Program, NYU Langone
Dong Hwan (David) Kim
Brown University '19
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen
Current: Research Assistant, One Brave Idea at Brigham and Women's University
Jacqueline Kisa
Yale University '19
Mentor : Dr. Giulio Draetta
Current: Post-Bac Research Fellowship, Yale University
Oleksandr (Sasha) Kyrysyuk
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Jinjie Ling
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Zhimin Lu
Ariana Maleki
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Greg Lizee
Sheighlah McManus
University of St. Thomas
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi
Diana Odhiambo
Benedict College
Mentor : Dr. Faye Johnson
Edie (Alex) Osuma
Wesleyan College
Mentor: Dr. Michael Curran
Shilpa Rajagopal
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor : Dr. Curtis Pickering
Sneha Rao
University of California at Berkeley '19
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Current: Research Assistant, University of California at San Francisco
Leah Salinsky
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Current: returning to CPRIT CURE in 2019
Anna Sabu Kurian
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Dan Frigo
Current:
Postbac at NIH
Heather Sweeney
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Myers
Llaran Turner
Hampton University
Mentor: Dr. Dihua Yu
Joycelyn Yiu
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. David Grosshans
Shoshana Zhang
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. David Piwnica-Worms