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 2024

Venkatananasai Alluri

Kevin Baek

Ruiqi Fan

Mengyuan Guo

Param Hemani

Sara Herron

Pinchi Hou

Curtis Hu

Chien-Chi Huang

Jaekwon Jung

Tongni Liu

Kyssia Ruth Mendoza

Jake Mostad

Keerthana Muralisekar

Ziyan Nie

Javeria Nishtar

Yirui Peng

Esha Pradhan

Tingyu Shi

Peng-Yi Song

Dhinal Thakker

Jiamin Wang

Qinglang Wang

Zimeng Wu

Yueshan Xia

Yuhan Xiao

Shitong Yang

Tianxiang Yao

Xueyang Zha

Aiwa Zhang

Entering Class of 2025

Rawan Abualjass

Undergraduate: Bs in Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago

Zamin Ahmed

Undergraduate: BS in Biology, Elmhurst University

Hana Ali

Undergraduate: BS in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Florida

Yogitha Aanand

Undergraduate: BTech in Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

Madeline Bell

Undergraduate: BS in Behavioral Neuroscience, Northwestern University

Melissa Capote

Undergraduate: BA in Psychology and History, Cornell University; BS in Behavioral Neuroscience, Floriday University

Isabella Censullo

Undergraduate: BS in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University

Maximillian Chandra

Undergraduate: BS in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology, Purdue University

Vivien Yuqi Chen

Undergraduate: BS in Neuroscience, Cell, and Molecular Biology, University of Toronto

Hongrui (Jeffrey) Chu

Undergraduate: BS in Pharmacological Chemistry, University of California San Diego

Shashank Deepak

Undergraduate: BEng in Biotechnology, RV College of Engineering

Xixi Deng

Undergraduate: BS in Biology, Beijing Forestry University; BS in Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia

Leyi Duan

Undergraduate: BS in Biochemistry, Bate College

Vidhi Gabani

Undergraduate: BS in Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gelis Garlarcé Lugo

Undergraduate: BS in Neuroscience, Indiana University

Yixiao Gao

Undergraduate: BS in Cell System Biology, University of Toronto

Christian Hernandez

Undergraduate: BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Vanessa Herrera

Undergraduate: BA in Neuroscience, Princeton University

Subin (Hailey) Hong

Undergraduate: BA in Chemistry, University of Rochester

Qilei Hu

Undergraduate: BS in Biological Science, University of California Davis

Ruoyi Jian

Undergraduate: BS in Pharmacology, University of California Santa Barbara

Jimmy Jang

Undergraduate: BS in Biology, Pennsylvania State University

Nanxi Jing

Undergraduate: BSC in Biomedical Science, University of College London

Hina Kadono

Undergraduate: BS in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology, Purdue University

Akshita Kendai

Undergraduate: BS in Molecular and Cell Biology and Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Kevin Li

Undergraduate: BS in Biochemistry, University of California San Diego

Zhuokun Li

Undergraduate: BS in Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jo Ying Lin

Undergraduate: BS in Biological Science and Technology, China Medical University

Yiou Ma

Undergraduate: BAgr in Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University

Irene Martinez

Undergraduate: BA in Biological Sciences, Northwestern University

Alejandro Martinez Santamaria

Undergraduate: BS in Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Kritika Murali

Undergraduate: BTech in Bioengineering, MIT Art, Design and Technology University

Yikai Peng

Undergraduate: BS in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Camellia Qiang

Undergraduate: BS in Molecular Biology, University of Washington

Roshan Raj Rajamanickam

Undergraduate: BS in Physiology and Neuroscience, BA in International Business, University of California San Diego

Polly Ren

Undergraduate: BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Lewis & Clark College

Hannah Reider

Undergraduate: BA in Biological Sciences, Northwestern University

Puja Sahoo

Undergraduate: BS in Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Ani Sibel

Undergraduate: BS in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Julia Stesal

Undergraduate: BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Haider Vanek

Undergraduate: BA in Cognitive Science, University of California Berkeley

Shutong Wang

Undergraduate: Bs in Biological Sciences, Georgia State University; BEng in Bioengineering, Southwest Jiatong University

Zihao Wu

Undergraduate: BS in Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Haowen Xue

Undergraduate: BS in Biotechnology, Qingdao University

Sahithi Sri Charani Yallapragada

Undergraduate: Bachelor of Pharmacy, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Yichen Yao

Undergraduate: BS in Life Science, McMaster University

Yutong Yao

Undergraduate: BS in Biology, Stony Brook University New York

Yuan You

Undergraduate: BS in Pharmacology and Biochemistry, China Pharmaceutical University

Chenshuo Zhang

Undergraduate: BS in Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin

Li Zhang

Undergraduate: BA in Neuroscience, BA in Psychology, Boston University

Lingzhu Zhang

Undergraduate: BMed in Stomatology, Nankai University

Shuoying Zhang

Undergraduate: BS in Biology, Gonzaga University

Yujie Zhang

Undergraduate: BS in Pharmacy, Sun Yat-sen University

Jiaxin Zhou

Undergraduate: BS in Human Biology, University of California San Diego