People
Current Students

The program is limited to approximately 30-40 students per year who progress through the program as a group. This ensures that students receive a high level of instructor attention and also creates the opportunity to form close bonds with their fellow classmates, which often transcend academia and continue into the workplace.

Student demographics

Entering Class of 2022

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Abdulaziz Alzeer

Abdulaziz's Website

Undergraduate: BS Microbiology, King Saud University
Research: "Evaluating the Functional Properties of the Novel Tri-Specific T Cell Engager for GBM Treatment" (I. Balyasnikova)
Internship: Research Assistant at Northwestern University

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Tarlan Arjmandi

Tarlan's Website

Undergraduate: BS Molecular and Cellular Biology-Genetics, Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Science
Research: "Immunopeptidomics and B cells - Discovery of tumor-specific antigen"
Internship: Graduate Research Assistant at Northwestern University

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Gunjan Bagri

Gunjan's Website

Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, MAHE Manipal Institute of Technology
Research: "Development of Media for Cultivated Meat" (A. Felse)
Internship: Research Associate Co-Op at WuXi Biologics

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Kishan Batcheldor

Kishan's Website

Undergraduate: BS Biology, Northern Arizona University
Research: "Genetic Engineering of Clostridium autoethanogenum for the Production of Target Alcohol" (M. Koepke)
Internship: Process Engineering Co-Op at Abbott

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Xiaoyang Chen

Undergraduate: BS Biochemistry, McGill University
Research: "LNP Screening for RNA Therapeutics" (P. Zhang)
Internship: Summer Intern at Eli Lilly and Company

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Yuheng Geng

Yuheng's Website

Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine
Research: "Creatine metabolism and a new creatine kinanse inhibitor in treating human GBM" (J. Miska)
Internship: Graduate Researcher at Northwestern University 

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Undergraduate: BS Biology and Vertebrate Physiology, Pennsylvania State University University Park
Research: "The Recombinant Antibody Approach to Mapping Spicule Matrix Protein Distribution in Sea Urchin"

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Brendan Hood

Brendan 's Website

Undergraduate: BS Biotechnology, Pennsylvania State University
Research: "Investigation on the Role of Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Amyloid Beta Oligomers (AbOs) in Neural Development"

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Yuyun Huang

Undergraduate: BAgric Agriculture Science, China Agricultural University
Research: "The role of QSOX1 in regulation of Tumor growth and Macrophage Immunosuppressive Polarization in Glioblastoma"

 

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Leila Irvani

Leila's Website

Undergraduate: BS Laboratory Sciences, Islamic Azad University
Research: "Finding the specific adaptor protein for CUL3 E3 ligase that links it to RNA Polymerase II" (A. Shilatifard)
Internship: Research Intern at Northwestern University 

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Ananya Joshi

Ananya 's Website

Undergraduate: BTech Biomedical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology

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Sayali Kulkarni

Sayali's Website

Undergraduate: BPHARM, Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy
Research: "A comprehensive comparative analysis of novel human monoclonal antibodies in B cell function" (L. Castillo-Menendez)
Internship: Research Associate at Octagon Therapeutics

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Tanasha Lertjanyarak

Tanasha's Website

Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
Research: "Engineering next generation exosome therapeutics" (H. Liu)
Internship: Process Engineering Co-Op at Abbott Laboratories 

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Hanchen Lin

Undergraduate: BS Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University
Research: "Nano-therapeutic Targeting of Immunosuppressive Myeloid Cells Synergizes with Radiotherapy for Glioblastoma"

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Undergraduate: BS Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

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Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, Beijing Forestry University
Research: "Optimize Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) Platforms for B Cell Engineering" (C. Lee-Chang)
Internship: Immunology Discovery Co-Op at Merck & Co.

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Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Junlin Lu

Undergraduate: BS Animal Behavior, Indiana University - Bloomington
Research: "Reducing toxicity of chemotherapeutics via Indirect Targeting"

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Viktor Maciag

Viktor's Website

Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
Research: "Biprocess and Media Development for Scale Up of Stem Cells for
Laboratory Grown Meat"

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Ava Mendoza

Ava's Website

Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Research: "An Analysis of Pharmaceutical Weight Loss Market to Determine if Unmet Medical Needs Exist for a New Product Entry" (W. Sargent)
Internship: Data Analyst Intern at UCB 

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Weronika Ptaszek

Weronika's Website

Undergraduate: BS Integrated Health Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago


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Sudharsana Ravisankar

Sudharsana's Website

Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, Anna University 
Research: "Development of Inducible dTAG Cell Lines to Analayze CRAMP1 and PRSAP fucntions" (D. Foltz)
Internship: Cell/Molecular Biology Co-Op at Exo Therapeutics 

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Sayani Saha

Sayani's Website

Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Durgapur
Research: "Ex vivo Reprogramming of CB8 T cells for adoptive cell therapy for solid tumors" (J. Wu)
Internship: Immunology Co-Op at Mercek & Co.

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Erica Satchell

Erica's Website

Undergraduate: BA General Science - Biology, Grinnell College
Internship: Data Process Scientist Intern at UCB UK

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Zainab Hazique Shaikh

Zainab's Website

Undergraduate: BS Neurobiology and Physiology, Purdue University
Research: "Scaling BVax for Clinical Application and Evaluating Other Indications Across Non-GBM Cancer Types" (C. Chang)
Internship: Drug and Discovery Intern at Eli Lilly and Company

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Iyappan Annamalai Subbiah

Iyappan's Website

Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Science, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research
Research: "Unmasking the Value: A Pharmacoeconomic Exploration of ARDS Interventions"
Internship: Contracting Business Analyst at Deloitte

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Hanxiao Sun

Undergraduate: BS Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles
Research: "Quantitative biology of therapeutic resistance in cancer cells through single-cell analyses enables exploration of cell plasticity"

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Suemeng Vang

Suemeng's Website

Undergraduate: BS Microbiology, North Dakota State University 
Research: "Development of a functional assay to predict in vivo performance of tolerogenic nanoparticles"

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Larry Wang

Larry's Website

Undergraduate: BA Biological Sciences - Northwestern University 
Research: "Neonatal Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Ileitis"

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Matt Williams

Matt's Website

Undergraduate: BA Biology, University of Chicago

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Undergraduate: BS Biology, University of California Los Angeles
Research: "PdNA with dPAOs for Sustainable Phosphorus and Nitrogen Removal"

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Ellen Zhang

Ellen's Website

Undergraduate: BS Neuroscience, University of Toronto
Research: "Investigating the Clinical Significance of the MIC-NKG2D Immune
Axis in Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) Metastasis Using
Comprehensive Data Analysis and Nanostring RNA Analysis"

Entering Class of 2023

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Hanin Abuzer

Hanin's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Aishvarya Agrawal

Aishvarya's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University 
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Undergraduate: BS Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Alexandra Bless

Alexandra's Website
Undergraduate: BA Biology, Willamette University
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Hannah Cook

Hannah's Website
Undergraduate: BS Chemistry and Secondary Math Education, West Virginia Wesleyan College
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Isha Ghadge

Isha's Website
Undergraduate: BS Pharmacy, Savitribai Phule Pune University
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Diya Goyal

Diya's Website
Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, PES University
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Saira John

Saira's Website
Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram
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Pavel Katsev

Pavel's Website
Undergraduate: BS Industrial Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering
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Kumar Mahanash

Kumar's Website
Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, PES University
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Li Shiyi

Li's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biochemistry, UC San Diego
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Xingyuan (Lily) Li

Xingyuan (Lily)'s Website
Undergraduate: BS Animal Science, University of California Davis
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Zhengyi Lin

Zhengyi's Website
Undergraduate: BS Cell Biology and Molecular Direction, Wenzhou-Kean University 
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Xiatong (Sheldon) Liu

Xiatong (Sheldon) 's Website
Undergraduate: BA Biology, Emory University
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Undergraduate: BS Ecology, China Argiculture University
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Ridhima Manocha

Ridhima's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biochemistry, University of Washington Seattle 
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Ana Martins

Ana's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Central Florida 
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Cade McClellan

Cade's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biochemistry, University of Wisonsin Madison
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Undergraduate: BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Dale Perdue

Dale's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biology, University of Kentucky
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Pornchanan (Cherlyn) Pholraksa

Pornchanan (Cherlyn)'s Website
Undergraduate: BS Biology, Indiana Unversity Indianapolis 
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Hetvi Rajani

Hetvi's Website
Undergraduate: BTech Chemical Engineering, MIT World Peace University
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Vibha Sarathy

Vibha's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biotechnology, Shiv Nadar University
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Undergraduate: BS in Molecular Engineering with a focus in Biology, University of Chicago
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Rohan Shukla

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Undergraduate: BS Biology, University of California Santa Cruz
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Yasemin Tekin

Yasemin's Website
Undergraduate: BS Molecular and Cell Biology, UC San Diego
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Undergraduate: BS, Missouri State University, Southwest University in China
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Undergraduate: BS Biotechnology, Zhejiang University of Technology
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Haoran Zeng

Haoran's Website
Undergraduate: BA Biology, Boston College
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Yuxuan Zhao

Yuxuan's Website
Undergraduate: BS Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Ningjia Zhou

Ningjia's Website
Undergraduate: BS Biological Science, Beijing Normal University