PeopleCurrent 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.
Entering Class of 2022
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
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
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
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
Xiaoyang Chen
Undergraduate: BS Biochemistry, McGill University
Research: "LNP Screening for RNA Therapeutics" (P. Zhang)
Internship: Summer Intern at Eli Lilly and Company
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
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"
Undergraduate: BS Biotechnology, Pennsylvania State University
Research: "Investigation on the Role of Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Amyloid Beta Oligomers (AbOs) in Neural Development"
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"
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
Undergraduate: BTech Biomedical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology
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
Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
Research: "Engineering next generation exosome therapeutics" (H. Liu)
Internship: Process Engineering Co-Op at Abbott Laboratories
Hanchen Lin
Undergraduate: BS Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University
Research: "Nano-therapeutic Targeting of Immunosuppressive Myeloid Cells Synergizes with Radiotherapy for Glioblastoma"
Undergraduate: BS Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
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.
Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Junlin Lu
Undergraduate: BS Animal Behavior, Indiana University - Bloomington
Research: "Reducing toxicity of chemotherapeutics via Indirect Targeting"
Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
Research: "Biprocess and Media Development for Scale Up of Stem Cells for
Laboratory Grown Meat"
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
Undergraduate: BS Integrated Health Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
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
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.
Undergraduate: BA General Science - Biology, Grinnell College
Internship: Data Process Scientist Intern at UCB UK
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
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
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"
Undergraduate: BS Microbiology, North Dakota State University
Research: "Development of a functional assay to predict in vivo performance of tolerogenic nanoparticles"
Undergraduate: BA Biological Sciences - Northwestern University
Research: "Neonatal Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Ileitis"
Undergraduate: BA Biology, University of Chicago
Undergraduate: BS Biology, University of California Los Angeles
Research: "PdNA with dPAOs for Sustainable Phosphorus and Nitrogen Removal"
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"