Current Students & Alumni
Alumni Spotlight - Fall 2018
Congrats to many of our outstanding 2018 CPRIT CURE Summer Undergraduate Research Program Alumni! Their
abstracts have been accepted to present at:
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students 2018
Binisha Karki (Overwijk Lab) - poster presentation Sasha Kyrysyuk (Watowich Lab) - oral presentation
Sheighlah McManus (Gandhi Lab) - poster presentation Eduardo Quesada Diaz (Gomez-Manzano Lab) - poster presentation
Diana Odhiambo (Faye Johnson Lab) - oral presentation Ariana Maleki (Lizee Lab) - poster presentation
Sanaz Ghotbaldini (Konopleva Lab) - poster presentation Llaran Turner (Dihua Yu Lab) - poster presentation
Leah Salinsky (Tainer Lab) - poster presentation
2018 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium (FURS) at UT Austin
Sheighlah McManus (Gandhi Lab) - poster presentation
Leah Salinksy (Tainer Lab) - poster presentation
We are so proud of you and of your amazing accomplishments!
Summer 2018 CPRIT CURE Program Alumni
Oluwapelumi (Esther) Akinwande
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Richard Behringer
Karina Bursch
Catholic University of America
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Allison Chang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Schluns
Karen George
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Ameen Homayoon
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Nick Navin
Dong Hwan (David) Kim
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen
Caleb Kroll
Brandeis University
Mentor: Andrew Futreal
Jinjie Ling
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Zhimin Lu
Marisela Martinez de Kraatz
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
Diana Odhiambo
Benedict College
Mentor : Dr. Faye Johnson
Eduardo Quesada-Diaz
University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
Mentor: Dr. Candelaria Gomez-Manzano
Sneha Rao
University of California at Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Leah Salinsky
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Heather Sweeney
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Myers
Meng Han (Ashley) Wu
University of Arizona
Mentor: Dr. Sean Post
Shoshana Zhang
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. David Piwnica-Worms
Madeleine Andreas
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Sendurai Mani
Emily Caggiano
Ohio University
Mentor: Dr. Filippo Giancotti
Nicholas DeCleene
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Sanaz Ghotbaldini
University of California at Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Marina Konopleva
Efiyenia (Fenia) Kaparos
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Dowon Kim
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur
Aaron (Asaph) Kupferman
University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Sophie Lu
Williams College
Mentor: Dr. Bin Wang
Sheighlah McManus
University of St. Thomas
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi
Samuel Oedi
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Shilpa Rajagopal
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor : Dr. Curtis Pickering
Thomas Rubino
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Carli Stewart
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Mentor : Dr. Michael Andreeff
Connor Tou
University of California at Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Joycelyn Yiu
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. David Grosshans
Hossein Bakhshandeh
Davidson College
Mentor: Dr. James Allison
Nathan Carroll
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. George Eisenhoffer
Ezzeddine (Ed) Elmir
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Robert Bast, Jr.
Carolyn Guan
Princeton University
Mentor: Dr. Ron DePinho
Binisha Karki
Southeastern Louisiana University
Mentor: Dr. Willem Overwijk
Jacqueline Kisa
Yale University
Mentor : Dr. Giulio Draetta
Oleksandr (Sasha) Kyrysyuk
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Ariana Maleki
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Greg Lizee
Lindsey Mortensen
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Steven Lin
Edie (Alex) Osuma
Wesleyan College
Mentor: Dr. Michael Curran
Srikar Ranga
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano
Anna Sabu Kurian
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Dan Frigo
Yusha Sun
Princeton University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Llaran Turner
Hampton University
Mentor: Dr. Dihua Yu
Kaveh Zare
University of California at Irvine
Mentor: Dr. Boyi Gan