Current Students & Alumni

Romina Adel
California State University - Sacramento
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin

Yamini Ananth
Columbia University
Mentor:
Dr. Traver Hart

Olga Batarse
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:
Dr. Rosa Nurieva

Emily Blitz
University of Arkansas- Fort Smith
Mentor:
Dr. David Fuentes

Sueda Cetinkaya
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Nidhi Sahni

Brandon Curl
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Caroline Chung

Allyson Drawdy
Clemson University
Mentor:
Dr. Varsha Gandhi

Alina Feng
Duke University
Mentor:
Dr. David Tweardy

Ashley Gelin
Pennslyvania State University
Mentor:
Dr. Micahel Curran

Margaret Han
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Powell Brown

Kristy Hernandez
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:
Dr. George Eisenhoffer

Thinh Huynh
The College of Wooster
Mentor: Dr. Jia Wu

Aparajith Kannapiran
University of  Texas - Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Jia Wu

Negar Koupaei
University of Texas - Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Powell Brown

Michael Li
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. David Piwnica- Worms

Alice Liu
University of Illinois- Chicago
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Davies

Catherine Luo
John Hokins University
Mentor:
Dr. Kelly Hunt

Nothando Mangena
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Steven Lin

Avha Mohanty
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Phil Jones 

Navya Murugesan
Tulane University
Mentor:
Dr. Kunal Rai

Joshua Ni
John Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Phil Jones

Janice Oh
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr.  Filippo Giancotti

Nicholas Rubino
Hamilton College
Mentor:
Dr. David Fuentes

Alexandre Schnell Ribeiro
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:
Dr. Robert Bast Jr.

Mona Shirvani
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Katharina Schlacher

Hongshen Wang
Carleton University
Mentor:
Dr. Steven Frank

Romina Adel
Cal State, Sacramento
Mentor: Dr. George Calin

Sima Arfania (CPRIT '19)
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Nick Navin

Arjun Bhatt
University of Georgia
Mentor: Dr. Susan Peterson

Cassandra Bishop
Carnegie Mellon University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi

John Boom
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Jia Wu

Ashish Chakraborty
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. Samir Hanash

Nina Denne
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie S. Watowich

Lily Erickson
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung

Ann Marie Flusche
University of Tulsa
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot

James George
Univ. Michigan
Mentor: Dr.Jia Wu

Carolina Guerrero
Dartmouth College
Mentor: Dr. Katharina Schlacher

Thinh Huynh
College of Wooster
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie S. Watowich

Sindhuri Ivaturi
Washington University at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung

Anvita Kandru
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Patrick Hwu

Chazaleh Khodaparast
Univ. California- Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra

Joelle Kim
Baylor University
Mentor: Dr. George Calin

Zachary Kulstad
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Wargo

Sophie Liu
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi

Qianyun (Lexi) Luo
Univ.wisconsin- Madison
Mentor: Dr. Alexandre Reuben

Nothando (Thankdie) Mangena
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Bisrat Debeb

Joycelyn Mathew
University of Rochester
Mentor: Dr. Matt Gubin

Timothy Miller
University of Evansville
Mentor: Dr. Cullen Taniguchi

Keri Nichols
University of Georgis
Mentor: Dr. Alexandre Reuben

Iyinyeoluwa Okulate
Univ. Maryland- Eastern Shore
Mentor: Dr. Francesca Cole

Meliza Perez
Wellesley College
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot

Julia Powell
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Robert C. Bast, Jr.

Ayman Roslend
Univ. Illinois- Urbana
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung

Priya Sarlashkar
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes

Poojan Shukla
Univ. California- Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Katharina Sclacher

Simran Singh
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Kristy Brock

Llaran Turner (CPRIT '18, '19)
Hampton University
Mentor: Dr. susan Peterson

Helen Wang
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson

Lucas Warma
University of Toronto
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi

Mary Zhang
Carleton College   
Summer Volunteer*

Raymond Zou
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Nidhi Sahni

Kano Amagai
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Greg Lizee

Marcos Armendariz
University of Texas at El Paso
Mentor: Dr. Filippo Giancotti

Sarah Becker
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Robert C. Bast, Jr.

Kian Behmard
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Georgios Karras

Miao Cao
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Mentor: Dr. Shao-Cong Sun

Juan Cerda
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Sean Post

Jodi Goldman
UCLA
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung

Alec Jacobson
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko

Justin Kim
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal

Neetij Krishnan
Saint Olaf College
Mentor: Dr. Helen Piwnica-Worms

Emily Lasse
Purdue University - West Layfayette
Mentors: Drs. Jones and Geck Do

Emma Lederer
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich

Raj Malhotra
Rutgers University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson

Gabriel Mesa
Wofford College
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown

Diana Odhiambo (CPRIT '18)
Benedict College
Mentor: Dr. Roza Nurieva

Jonathan Qi
Stanford University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta

Carolina Ramirez
Abilene Christian University
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown

Leah Salinsky
University of Texas at Austin '19
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
Current: Research Assistant, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Antonio (Vitor) Souza
Dartmouth College
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur

Hannah Stumpf
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers

Sophia Tang
University of Chicago
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta

Joey Toker
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Wargo

Llaran Turner (CPRIT '18)
Hampton University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra

Nicole Wright
Vanderbilt University
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer

Tiffany (Adrianne) Wu
Mount Holyoke College
Mentor: Dr. Paul Scheet

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
 

Sami Ahmad
Johns Hopkins University 
Mentor: Dr. James Allison 

Rasha Bara
Johns Hopkins University 
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers

Ria Brown
Emory University 
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer 

Edward Chen
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Molldrem

Josue Chirinos
Princeton University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko

Evelyn de Groot
Case Western Reserve University 
Mentor: Dr. Michael Davies 

Jacob Elnaggar
Baylor University
Mentor: Dr. Anil Korkut

Christina Hong
Emory University 
Mentors: Drs. Elizabeth Grimm & Suhendan Ekmekcioglu

Jeremy Jong
UCLA
Mentor: Dr. Faye Johnson 

Samah Khan
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: 

Trevin Kurtanich
University of Southern California
Mentor: Dr. Willem Overwijk

Jihoon Lim
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown 

Armita Norouzi
UC Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi

William Pangburn
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Nick Navin

David Alejandro Sanchez
University of Texas San Antonio 
Mentor: Dr. Pawel Mazur

Vikram Shaw
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot

Elizabeth Silver
University of Conneticut
Mentor: 

Kristin Smoot
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Mentor: 

Alison Vicary
Texas A&M University
Mentor:  Dr. Michael Andreeff

Asrar Alimohamed
Wofford College
Mentor:  Dr. Andrew Futreal

Efosa Amadasu
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor:  Dr. Konstantin Sokolov

Matthew Cagley
University of Texas
Mentor:  Dr. Anirban Maitra

Julius Danquah
Philander Smith College
Mentor:  Dr. Jonathan Kurie

Ziyu Fan
Carleton College
Mentor:  Dr. Yunfei Wen

Jessica Gibson
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:  Dr. Susan Peterson

Astrid Guevara
University of St. Thomas
Mentor:  Dr. Menashe Bar Eli

Collin Harlan
Texas A&M University
Mentor:   Dr. James Bankson

Lisa Hom 
Whittier College 
Mentor:  Dr. Francois Claret

 Julia Josowitz
Kenyon College 
Mentor:  Dr. Patrick Hwu

Gabriela Lammoglia 
Texas A&M University 
Mentor:  Dr.  Jonathan Kurie

Nicolas Martinez Sanchez
University of California Berkeley
Mentor:  

Kelsey Montoya
New Mexico State University
Mentor:  Dr. David Tweardy

Fatemeh Naini
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:  

Amanda Ivette Pacheco Lebron
University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras
Mentor:  

Nikita Maria-Jose Sankoorikkal
Rice University
Mentor:  Dr. Michael Galko

Charles Slocum
Carleton College
Mentor: 

Lisa Strong
University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen

Yizhen (Vicky) Weng
Northeastern University
Mentor: Dr. Jagannadha Sastry

Natalie Wu
University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Michael Curran

Yasamine Abbey
Vassar
Mentor: Dr. Liz Travis

Katherine Alexander
Washington University in St Louis
Mentor: Dr. Sendurai Mani

Varun Bansal
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Tsai

Waynesha Blaylock
Tougaloo College
Mentor: Dr. Powel H. Brown

Caitlyn Brashears
University of Texas  Baylor University 
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur

Sarah Cunningham
University of Georgia 
Mentor: Dr. Eisenhoffer 

Chloe Friedman
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi

Kavanya Gray
Ripon College
Mentor: Dr. Sue-Hwa Lin

Raquel Jaeger
The University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Xiaobing Shi

Karan Kathuria
The University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Edward Yeh

Mehrnoosh Kohansal Kallina
Texas A&M University - Commerce
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi

Androniki Mitrou 
Grinnell College
Mentor: Dr. Jim Bankson

Tra Ngo
The University of Texas at Dallas
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal

Kwadwo Owusu Ansah
Philander Smith College
Mentor: Dr. Boyi Gan

Mabel Perez-Oquendo
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Mentor: Dr. Craig Logsdon

Jennifer Schwieterman
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers

Martin Sentmanat
University of Dallas
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko

Joan Shang
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Jae-il Park

Feiya Sophia Shi
Washington University at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. Wendy Woodward

Miquel Sobral 
John Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta

Sharon Syau
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen

Hieu Van
College of St. Benedict
Mentor: Dr. Seyed Moghaddam

Ryan Yang
Emory University
Mentor: 

Anushree Agrawal
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano

Andrew Alter
Emory  University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta

Wei-Sheng (Jeff) Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor: Dr. James Allison

Mu Feng
Oregon State University
Mentor: Dr. Pierre McCrea

Selena Hernandez Carmona
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi

Emily Hillmer
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich

Stephan Cheng Hu
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Sandurai Mani

Nicolas Hyun Ledru
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Molldrem

Nicholas King
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton

Ryan P. Larger
Ohio State University
Mentor: Dr. John Hazle

Helen Lu
University of North Texas
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi

Alexandra Makara
Fordham University
Mentor: Dr. Russell Broaddus

Zachary Mastrovich
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: 

Matthew Metzinger
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: 

Nkechi Nwabueze
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Francios Claret

Rachel Robinson 
Louisiana State University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra

Alaina Roth
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Francois Claret

Valeria Sanabria Guillen
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Shao-Cong Sun

Janaya Shelly
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mentor: 

Lauren Renee Smith
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: 

Aly Valliani 
Swarthmore College
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers

Wenyue (Ivy) Wu
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Tomasz Zal

Joseph Botros
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton

Vivian Chang
Bryn Mawr College
Mentor: Dr. Elsa Flores

Adrienne Chestang
Prairie View A&M
Mentor: Dr. William Plunkett

Alexi Choueiri
Arizona State University
Mentor: Dr. Zhimin Lu

Melissa Dang
University of Oklahoma
Mentor: Dr. David McConkey

Zhou Fang
the University of Texas Austin
Mentor: Dr. Peter Ruvolo

Vivian Fu
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra

Chinonye (Nonye) Imo
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. William Overwijk

Johnathan Dexuan Jia
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Shao-Cong Sun

Brooke Kania
Bucknell University
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Gladden

Chongjin (Nick) Lee
Texas Tech
Mentor: 

Yun Liang
Princeton University
Mentor:

Robert Lusi
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi

Richard Anthony Meena
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: 

Juliet Austin Murray
San Francisco State University
Mentor: 

Lindy Pence
Wofford College
Mentor: Dr. Charles Adelmann

Shannon Reinert
Middlebury College
Mentor: Dr. Roza Nurieva

Andrea Schneider
State University of New York Buffalo
Mentor: Dr. Jae-il Park 

Kathryn E. Squiers
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: 

Thomas Vu
Xavier University of Louisiana
Mentor: Dr. Howard Gutstein

Jennifer Wray
Dartmouth College
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta

Nicole Yson
Rutgers University
Mentor: Dr. Isabelle Bedrosian

Yurun Zhang 
University of Wisconsin 
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown

Charles (Hank) Adelmann
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Tsai

Mary Blake (Meyer)
California State University-Sacramento
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra

Jefferson Chaoyu Chen
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi

Kevin Morales DeJesus
University of Puerto Rico
Mentor: Dr. Pierre McCrea

Abigail Dutkiewicz (Solitro)
Ferris State University
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano

Elisa Glubok Gonzalez
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. David McConkey

Tamara Griffiths
Texas A&M at Corpus Christi
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton

Athena Huang
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Dong Chen

Kaveeta Kaw
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Li Ma

Roger Liang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Kwong

Lauren Mason
Rutgers University
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Myers

Chiara Prodani
Texas A&M Corpus Christi & Del Mar College
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton

Chayanit Sasiponganan
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Vicki Huff

Harkiran Sodhi
University of California Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Shao-Cong Sun

Carolina Alexander-Rodriguez (Savino) 
Rochester Intitute of Technology
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen

Jessica Jie Chen
Washington University at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur

Jasmine Ginn
Howard University
Mentor: 

Henry Han
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton

Lotanna Pamela Ikeotuonye
Howard University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra

Lauren Larrabure
University of California Berkeley
Mentor: 

Mirna Martinez
Howard University
Mentor:

Sarah Schuhmacher
Trinity University
Mentor: Dr. Pierre McCrea

David Walker
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Dean Lee