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

Class of 2019 - 2020/21

Bisma Ajaz

• BS Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Certificate in Quality Assurance and Control), University of California - San Diego, California

Arnau Argemi

• BS Biological Sciences, University of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois

Hunter Brown

• BA Biology, Carleton College - Northfield, Minnesota

Federico Cammarata

• BS Management and Technology (Specialization in Technology Chemistry), Technical University of Munich- München, Germany 

Jonathan Chen

• BS Chemical Engineering, University of California - Berkeley, California

Leo Chen

• BS Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University - Taipei, Taiwan

Maxine Faass

• BS Chemistry, Emory University - Atlanta, Georgia

Nupur Goswami

• B.Tech Biotechnology, Amity Institute of Biotechnology - Raipur, India

Nana Ingram

• BS Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University - Bloomington, Illinois

Alexander Jackson

• BS Biochemistry, University of Denver - Denver, Colorado

Ishi Jain

• B.Tech Chemical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology - Jaipur, India

Clarens Jarbath

• MS Public Health (Epidemiology Concentration), Florida State University - Tallahassee, Florida
• BS Biology, Florida State University - Tallahassee, Florida

Seok Won Jee

• BS Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin

Khak Khak Khayi

• BA Biochemistry, University of Washington - Seattle, Washington

Amy Lee

• BA Genetics, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, New Jersey

Victor Li

• BS Pharmacy, Xinhua College of Sun Yat-sen University - Guangzhou, China

Lena Licht

• BS Biochemistry, University of California - Los Angeles, California

Siran Liu

• BM Basic Medical Science, Capital Medical University - Fengtai, China

Anna Lu

• BS Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto - Ontario, Canada

Lila Lu

• BS Viticulture and Enology, University of California - Davis, California

Haocong Ma

• BEng Bioengineering, China Agricultural University - Beijing, China

Prerana Mantri

• BS Biomedical Science, Florida Institute of Technology - Melbourne, Florida

Manaswini Mattegunta

• BS Biotechnology, University of Houston - Houston, Texas

Kyssia Mendoza

• BS Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst, Massachusetts

Shruti Narayan

• B. Tech Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology - Vellore, India

Bhavin Patel

• MS Biology (Specialization in Regenerative Medicince), California Polytechnic State University  - San Luis Obispo, California
• BS Neuroscience, University of California - Santa Cruz, California

Stephanie Shee

• BS Biological Sciences, University of Illinois - Chicago, Illinois

Jonathan Timbrell

• BSc Honors Specialization in Genetics, University of Western Ontario - Ontario, Canada

Jessi Toumeh

• BS Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas - Arlington, Texas

Nish Trivedi

• Double BA Biological Sciences, Northwestern University - Evanston, Illinois

Yuwei Yang

• BS Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California - San Diego, California

Mengting Ye

• BS Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California - San Diego, California

Zihao Yu

• BS Biology, Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, Ohio

Chenlin Zhao

• BEng Biological Engineering, Ocean University of China - Qingdao, China

Alison Zhou

• BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Illinois

Sherry Zhou

• BS Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University - Guangzhou, China

Ashleigh Acker

•  BS Biology, Emory University 

Andrew Benintende

• BS Movement Science, University of Michigan 
• Doctor of Medicine, Michigan State University 

Stanley Chen

• BS Molecular Cell Biology, University of Connecticut 

Yang Cheng

• BS Biological Sciences, Xiamen University 

Raymond Copley

• BS Biomedical Sciences, Grand Valley State University

Megan Cunningham

• BS Biochemistry, University of Dayton 

Natalia Deszcz

• BS Health Sciences, DePaul University 

Abby Ellingwood

• BS Biology, Rhodes College 

Sean Flannery

• BS Biology, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Phillip Freeman

• BS Chemistry, University of South Carolina Honors College

Emily Gamero

• BS Biological Sciences, Florida International University 

Anjali Gondalia

• BA Neuroscience, Boston University 

Songlin Guo

• BS Biology, University of Washington 

Irene Jacob

• B.Tech. Biotechnology, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University 

Anusha Kamath

• BS Pharmacy, University of Mumbai 

Nilofar Khanbhai

• BS Biotechnology, Ferris State University

Kevin Lerner

• BS Molecular Biology, Gettysburg College 

Ya Li

• BS Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Minghui Lu

• BS Biology, Sewanee: University of the South 

Aakaanksha Maddineni

• BS Technology and Genetic Engineering, SRM. Institute of Science and Technology

Donald McKenna

• BS Premedicine, University of Dayton

Kelly Murphy

• BS Neuroscience, University of Nevada

Micaela Naibryf

• BS Chemical Engineering, Columbia University 

Esther Nehmad Karasik

• M.B.B.S.: Medicine and Surgery, Universidad Anáhuac México

Paige Neuy

• BS Biological Sciences: Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ruxuan Qiu

• BS Biology, University of Wisconsin 

Mbolle Ekane

• BS Biology, University of Texas at Austin 

Daniel Payan

• BS Liberal Arts and Sciences: Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anuragini Rastogi

• BS Science, Banasthali Vidyapith
• MS Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith

Robert Reichert

• BA Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University 

Isaiah Richardson

• BS Biomedical Sciences, Concordia University Wisconsin 

Mahima Shilotri

• BS Biotechnology, D.Y. Patil University 

Caylee Silvers

• BS Biology, University of Wisconsin 

Ruihao Song

• B.Eng. Food Safety and Quality, China Agricultural University 

Isaac Svebakken

• BS Biotechnology, North Dakota State University 

Calliope Vaselopulos

• BS Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University 

Deepali Venkatesh Prasanna

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Hanxiang Wang

• BS Biotechnology, Sunyat-Sen University 

Mohammad Ahmed

• BS Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University

Ankith Bhat

• BS Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Yvette Calvillo

• BLAS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tzu-Yi Chia

• BS Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University

Scott Curtis

• BS Biology, Sacred Heart University 

Eleanor Daugerdas

• BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University

Byron Fan

• BS Biology, Santa Clara University

Nicole Flores

• BS Cellular Biology, Schreiner University

Shreya Jambardi

• B. Tech. Biotechnology, PES University

Harmon Johnson

• BS Biomolecular Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Silei Li

• BS Biology, Brown University

Yayan Li

• BS Biology, Indiana University Bloomington

Ziyan Liang

• BS Pharmacy, Peking University 

Icho (Yike) Lu

• BS Biology, Emory University

Yashasvi Matam

• BS Neuroscience, Indiana University

Linh Nguyen

• BA Neurobiology, University of Wisconsin 

Joshua Nikolai

• BS Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University

Ian Root

• BS Bioengineering, University of New Hampshire

Mirabel Salmon

• University of North Carolina 

Kyrollos Shenouda

• BS Health Sciences, Saint Louis University

Marissa Udine

• BS Integrative Neuroscience, DePaul University

Yeshasvi Vempati

• BA Biological Sciences, Northwestern University 

Mrinalini Verma

• BS Biology, University of California San Diego

Hanxiao Wan

• BS Biology, University of Wisconsin

Zican Wang

• BS Cell and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University

Yiwen Xie

• BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts

Rongzhen Yu

• BS Biotechnology, Jilin University