Current Students & Alumni
2024 CPRIT CURE Summer Undergraduates
Eseohe Abulu
Univeristy of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Richard Bouchard
Sayan Alekseev
University of Texas at San Antonio
Mentor:
Dr. Seyed Moghaddam
Shivani Babu
Stanford University
Mentor:
Dr. Han Xu
Nicholas Boling
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin
Angelo Chen
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Jonathan Kurie
Aurora Davis
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Galko
Jacob Finley
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:
Dr. Steven Lin
Ashley Garcia
Houston Christian University
Mentor:
Dr. Pratip Bhattacharya
Breana Herrera
Houston Christian University
Mentor:
Dr. Varsha Gandhi
Amelia Janiak
Duke Kunshan University
Mentor:
Dr. Anil Sood
Nicholas Le
Texas A&M University
Mentor:
Dr. Cassian Yee
Amy Li
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Katharina Schlacher
Maya Lobo
Scripps College
Mentor:
Dr. Kevin McBride
Abid Manzar
SUNY College at Buffalo
Mentor:
Dr. Gabriel Lopez Bernstein
Nicole Munoz
New York University
Mentor:
Dr. Steven Millward
Adithya Nair
Baylor University
Mentor:
Dr. Jian Hu
Ali Nilforoush
University of Virginia
Mentor:
Dr. Kristy Brock
Praveen Puviindran
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mentor:
Dr. Lauren Colbert
Chimamanda Santos- Obi
Fisk University
Mentor:
Dr. David Fuentes
Erin Suh
University of Georgia
Mentor:
Dr. Raghu Kalluri
Marcus Thurm
Drake University
Mentor:
Dr. Joseph Ludwig
Abigail Yoo
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Humam Kadara
Jeffrey Zhang
Texas A&M University
Mentor:
Dr. Simona Colla
Qiyang Zhou
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor:
Dr. Jeffrey Molldrem
Nikki Adams
University of Nevada: Las Vegas
Mentor:
Dr. Faye Johnson
Varshini Anand
Smith College
Mentor:
Dr. Dihua Yu
Aunannya Banik
Sweet Briar College
Mentor(s):
Dr. Robert Bast and Dr. Zhen Lu
Elizabeth Butchko
Texas A&M University
Mentor:
Dr. Blaine Bartholomew
Jiashu (Terry) Cheng
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Venkata Battula
Zoe Du
University of Texas at Dallas
Mentor:
Dr. Chunhua Shi
Carissa Fong
Baylor University
Mentor:
Dr. Wenyi Wang
Parshan Gerafian
University of California: Berkeley
Mentor:
Dr. Amy Moreno
Annelise Huynh
University of Oklahoma
Mentor:
Dr. Raghu Kalluri
Nathaniel John
Washington University: St. Louis
Mentor:
Dr. Caroline Chung
Jiwang Lee
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Xinrui Li
Bates College
Mentor:
Dr. Lawrence Kwong
Sahana Lothumalla
University of Michigan
Mentor:
Dr. Moran Amit
Nicole Massoumi
Yale University
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Vineeth Murugan
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Vidya Gopalakrishnan
Shreya Nair
University of Texas at Dallas
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Andreeff
Neil Nimmagadda
Duke University
Mentor:
Dr. Anirban Maitra
Roberto Rangel
University of Houston
Mentor:
Dr. Andrew Sikora
Aneesh Shakthy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mentor:
Dr. Charles Manning
Chaeun (Christine) Song
Harvard College
Mentor:
Dr. Chunru Lin
Ayush Suresh
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Eugene Koay
Varun Vasireddy
University of Miami
Mentor:
Dr. Bin Wang
Kelsey Yutan
Scripps College
Mentor:
Dr. Jeffrey Myers
Wanyu Zhang
Duke University
Mentor:
Dr. Scott Evans
Arya Akbarshahi
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin
Boz Azordegan
University of California: Davis
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Curran
Nirjar Bhattacharya
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Giulio Draetta
Francisco Chavez
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Kadir Akdemir
Erin Citarella
Colorado State University
Mentor:
Dr. Jennifer McQuade
Morgan Fimreite
St. Norbert College
Mentor:
Dr. Katharina Schlacher
Alyssah Fuentes
University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Mentor:
Dr. Liuqing Yang
Sravya Gullapalli
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Guillermina Lozano
Zara Italia
Houston Christian University
Mentor:
Dr. David Tweardy
Paridhi Latawa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor:
Dr. Bin Wang
Ryan Lee
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Uddalak Bharadwaj
Andy Liu
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Richard Bouchard
Cindy Luong
Houston Christian University
Mentor:
Dr. Roza Nurieva
Medha Mohan
Albion College
Mentor:
Dr. Katy Rezvani
Katherine Meyerholtz
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Jalen Nguyen
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Andreeff
Alysa Pham
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Dr. James You
Elizabeth Rose
Amherst College
Mentor:
Dr. Yejing Ge
Ria Sinha
Boston University
Mentor:
Dr. Vilar-Sanchez
Lalithaa Subramanian
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Dr. John Tainer
Serena Thomas
University of Illinois at Chicago
Mentor:
Dr. Wendy Woodward
William Wu
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Ronald DePinho
Ashley Zhang
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Yejing Ge
Catherine Zhou
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Ken Chen
2023 CPRIT CURE Summer Undergraduates
Eleazar Abraham
Univeristy of Kansas
Mentor(s):
Drs. Albert Koong and Dadi Jiang
Elisabeth S. Arrondo
Hope College
Mentor:
Dr. Paul Shen
Phoebe H. Calkins
Townson University
Mentor:
Dr. Micael Andreeff
Zara De Leon
Houston Christian University
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin
Onyinye Francisa Ejiaka
Fisk University
Mentor:
Dr. Faye M. Johnson
Armina Fani
Georgia State
Mentor:
Dr. Wenyi Wang
Maanas Gupta
University of Texas
Mentor:
Dr. Georgios Karras
Jia Byron
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Katy Rezvani
Rahm Kim
University of Texas
Mentor:
Dr. Kadir Akdemir
Hannah Li
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Lauren Colbert
Sahana Lothumalla
University of Michigan
Mentor:
Dr. Moran Amit
Daniel Mousavi
John Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Jennifer McQuade
Audrey Parrott
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Jeffrey Molldrem
Maria Puche
Houston Christian University
Mentor:
Dr. Roza Nurieva
Roberto Rangel
University of Houston
Mentor:
Dr. Andrew Sikora
Dvij Sharma
Davidson College
Mentor:
Dr. Henry Manning
Chien M. Tran Phuoc
Bowling Green State Univeristy
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Hamilton M. Young
University of Oklahoma
Mentor:
Dr. David Fuentes
Robert Al-Atrash
Abilene Christian University
Mentor(s):
Dr. Swathi Arur and Dr. Debabrata Das
Natalia Bowman
Austin College
Mentor:
Dr. Dihua Yu
Jeffrey Cheng
Ohio State University
Mentor:
Dr. Fei Yu
Varuna Dhanabal
University of Southern Indiana
Mentor:
Dr. Raghu Kalluri
Satvik R. Elayavalli
Fisk University
Mentor:
Dr. Ken Chen
Fatemeh S. Farassati
University of Kansas
Mentor:
Dr. Anirban Maitra
Daphne Han
Carnegie Mellon
Mentor:
Dr. Paul Scheet
Kevin Jin
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Yeijing Ge
Meredith Klay
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Dimitri E. Lin
Colby College
Mentor:
Dr. Andrew Futreal
Cindy N. Luong
Houston Christian University
Mentor:
Dr. Roza Nurieva
Wanying Na
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Elise Pham
Harvard University
Mentor:
Dr. David Piwnica-Worms
Ilsa Qureshi
Emory University
Mentor:
Dr. Gabriel Sawakuchi
Rafael I. Rojas
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Ronald DePinho
Annamarie L. Thompson
Mississippi State University
Mentor:
Dr. Sayed Moghaddam
Zahra Vafaei Naeini
Lousiana State University
Mentor:
Dr. Gigi Lozano
Aran Zakeri
University of California - San Diego
Mentor(s):
Drs. Robert Bast and Zen Lu
Sayan Alekseev
University of Texas-San Antonio
Mentor:
Dr. Matt Gubin
Veronica Cabeza de Vaca
Tufts University
Mentor:
Dr. Anil Sood
Grace I. DeAlessandro
Baylor University
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Zoe X. Du
University of Texas - Dallas
Mentor:
Dr. Chunhua Shi
Jayden Fagbola
Baylor University
Mentor:
Dr. Jonathan Kurie
Ashley Garcia
Houston Christian University
Mentor:
Dr. Pratip Bhattacharya
Margaret Y. Han
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Cullen Tanigchi
Banoo M. Khani
University of California LA
Mentor:
Dr. Florencia McAllister
Eric Li
University of Texas
Mentor:
Dr. Priya Koppikar
Jason D. Lorenzana
University of Texas
Mentor:
Dr. Jihong Wang
Nicole L. Massoumi
Yale University
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Kate Nelson
University of Arizona
Mentor:
Dr. Simona Colla
Aditya Prasad
University of Texas
Mentor:
Dr. Kristy Brock
Mahdia Rahman
University of Texas
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Raha Sharaflari
Columbia College
Mentor:
Dr. Cassian Yee
Priya Tirumala
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Keri Schadler
Angelina J. Xu
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Richard Bouchard
2022 CPRIT CURE Summer Undergraduates
Nalia Abney
Boston University
Mentor:
Dr. Guocan Wang
Hawk Azordegan
University of California-Berkeley
Mentor:
Dr. Charles Manning
Kayli Bolton
University of
Kentucky
Mentor:
Dr. Clifton Fuller
Michelle Chen
Smith College
Mentor:
Dr. Powel Brown
Bryan Duong
University of Illinois
Mentor:
Dr. Jennifer Wargo
Maya Ferrell
University of Oklahoma
Mentor:
Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Loraine Gigi
Texas A & M University
Mentor:
Dr. Di Zhao
Eve Hall
North Carolina State University
Mentor:
Dr. Gigi Lozano
Wilson Huang
John Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin
Ryan Kashanchi
Stanford University
Mentor:
Dr. Chunhua Shi
Rishab Kolachina
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Gabriel Sawakuchi
Emily Lu
John Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Seyed Moghaddam
Sujay Marisetty
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Giulio Draetta
Lynn-Chi Nguyen
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Moran Amit
Reethi Padmanabhan
Vanderbilt University
Mentor:
Dr. Sendurai Mani
Maria Puche
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:
Dr. Roza Nurieva
Lauren Reed
Biola University
Mentor:
Dr. Min Gyu Lee
Jorge Rodas
Amherst College
Mentor:
Dr. David Tweardy
Autumn Sunderland
University of Toledo
Mentor:
Dr. Powel Brown
Anh Ton
University of Texas MD Anderson
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin
Matthew Ye
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. James You
Danny Zhang
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Cassian Yee
Anagha Alapati
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Boyi Gan
Esther Beck
University of Chicago
Mentor:
Dr. Lawrence Kwong
Hannah Burleson
University of Central Florida
Mentor:
Dr. Clifton Fuller
Yining Chen
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Ronald DePinho
Jayden Fagbola
Baylor
University
Mentor:
Dr. Nidhi Sahni
Aishani Gargapati
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Alvaro Goncalves
Princeton
University
Mentor:
Dr. Anil Sood
Carl Ho
Harvard University
Mentor:
Dr. Andrew Futreal
Rachel Ivy
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Mentor:
Dr. Caroline Chung
Vindhya Kilaru
University of California-Berkeley
Mentor:
Dr. Francesca Bergemann Cole
Katerina Kourpas
Princeton University
Mentor:
Dr. Katharina Schlacher
Leila Madanizadeh
Trinity University
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Alysia Martinez
Baylor University
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin
Ali Nilforoush
University of Virginia
Mentor:
Dr. Kristy Brock
Pranathi Pilla
University of Texas-Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Piwnica-Worms
Sahana Ramaswamy
Texas A & M University
Mentor:
Dr. Caroline Chung
Ariah Richards
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Robert Behringer
Raha Sharaflari
Columbia University
Mentor:
Dr. Cassian Yee
William Symmans
Bates College
Mentor:
Dr. Candelaria Gomez-Manzano
Bach Tran
Albion College
Mentor:
Dr. Jihong Wang
Yidian Ye
University of Washington
Mentor:
Dr. Katharina Schlacher
Grace Zhou
University of Texas-Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Andrew Sikora
Sayan Alekseev
University of Texas-San Antonio
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Curran
Eliot Behr
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Ronald DePinho
Duc Ngan Chau
Western Michigan
University
Mentor:
Dr. Venkata Battula
Lorenzo Cruz
John Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Laura Beretta
Fatemeh Farassati
University of
Kansas
Mentor:
Dr. Anirban Maitra
Nikhil Garlapati
University of
Texas-Austin
Mentor:
Dr.
Chunru Lin
Elijah Gonzalez
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Mark Pagel
Nghia Hoang
Franklin and Marshall College
Mentor:
Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Ylliah Jin
Wellesley College
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Andreeff
Sanghyun Kim
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Guocan Wang
Dawei Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mentor:
Dr. Katy Rezvani
Niloofar Madanizadeh
Trinity University
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Daniel Mousavi
John Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Jennifer McQuade
Yamillie Ortiz
St. Catherine University
Mentor:
Dr. Moran Amit
Nithin Poreddy
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Steven Lin
Lindsey Ran
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Francesca Bergemann Cole
Caroline Robins
Texas Tech University
Mentor:
Dr. Mark Pagel
Max Slotnik
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Ronald DePinho
Priya Tirumala
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Mary Geck Do
Andrea Waltrip
Mary Washington College
Mentor:
Dr. Raghu Kalluri
Melvin Zarghooni
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Seyed Moghaddam
CPRIT CURE Alumni
2021 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Romina Adel
California State University -
Sacramento
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin
Yamini Ananth
Columbia University
Mentor:
Dr. Traver Hart
Olga Batarse
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:
Dr. Rosa Nurieva
Emily Blitz
University of Arkansas- Fort Smith
Mentor:
Dr. David Fuentes
Sueda Cetinkaya
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Nidhi Sahni
Brandon Curl
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Caroline Chung
Allyson Drawdy
Clemson University
Mentor:
Dr. Varsha Gandhi
Alina Feng
Duke University
Mentor:
Dr. David Tweardy
Ashley Gelin
Pennslyvania State University
Mentor:
Dr. Micahel Curran
Margaret Han
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Powell Brown
Kristy Hernandez
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:
Dr. George Eisenhoffer
Thinh Huynh
The College of Wooster
Mentor: Dr. Jia Wu
Aparajith Kannapiran
University of Texas - Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Jia Wu
Negar Koupaei
University of Texas - Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Powell Brown
Michael Li
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. David Piwnica- Worms
Alice Liu
University of Illinois- Chicago
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Davies
Catherine Luo
John Hokins University
Mentor:
Dr. Kelly Hunt
Nothando Mangena
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Steven Lin
Avha Mohanty
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Phil Jones
Navya Murugesan
Tulane University
Mentor:
Dr. Kunal Rai
Joshua Ni
John Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Phil Jones
Janice Oh
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Filippo Giancotti
Nicholas Rubino
Hamilton College
Mentor:
Dr. David Fuentes
Alexandre Schnell Ribeiro
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:
Dr. Robert Bast Jr.
Mona Shirvani
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Katharina Schlacher
Hongshen Wang
Carleton University
Mentor:
Dr. Steven Frank
Awurama Akyianu
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Steven Millward
Matthew Anderson
Hillsdale College
Mentor:
Dr. George Calin
Emma Becker
Kenyon College
Mentors:
Dr. Phil Jones
John Boom
Duke University
Mentor:
Dr. Jia Wu
Guo Chen
Northwestern University
Mentor:
Dr. Rosa Nurieva
Selena Ding
University of California- Berkeley
Mentor:
Dr. Georgios Karras
Shafqat Ehsan
St. Marys University
Mentors:
Dr. Robert Bast Jr.
Maya Ferrell
University of Oklahoma
Mentor:
Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Viraj Govani
Cornell University
Mentor:
Dr. Keri Schadler
Bailey Harmon
Carleton University
Mentor:
Dr. Stephanie S. Watowich
Jingwen Hu
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Di Zhao
Elaijah Islam
University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley
Mentor:
Dr. Federica Pisaneschi
Prabhat Kattel
University of Texas- Tyler
Mentor:
Dr. Jim Bankson
Maggie Lee
Georgia Tech University
Mentor:
Dr. Caroline Chung
Mark Li
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Awdhesh Kalia
Sophie Liu
University of Texas- Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Seyedsepehr Madani
University of Massachusetts- Lowell
Mentor:
Dr. Chad Tang
Sujay Marisetty
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Giulio Draetta
Daniel Mousavi
John Hopkins University
Mentor:
Dr. Jennifer McQuade
Shivani Nellore
University of Pennslyvania
Mentor:
Dr. Moran Amit
Zainab Niaz
Rice University
Mentor:
Dr. Bin Wang
Alisha Patel
University of Florida
Mentor:
Dr. Phil Jones
Mumina Sadullozoda
University of New York- Brooklyn College
Mentor:
Dr. Keri Schadler
Jean Schneider
University of Texas-Austin
Mentor:
Dr. Matthew Gubin
Mohammed Mehdi Shahid
Carleton College
Mentor:
Dr. Jihong Wang
Jovan Stanisavic
University of Chicago
Mentor:
Dr. Lawrence Kwong
Lucas Warma
University of Tornoto
Mentor:
Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
2020 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Romina Adel
Cal State, Sacramento
Mentor: Dr. George Calin
Sima Arfania (CPRIT '19)
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Nick Navin
Arjun Bhatt
University of Georgia
Mentor: Dr. Susan Peterson
Cassandra Bishop
Carnegie Mellon University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
John Boom
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Jia Wu
Ashish Chakraborty
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. Samir Hanash
Nina Denne
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie S. Watowich
Lily Erickson
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung
Ann Marie Flusche
University of Tulsa
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
James George
Univ. Michigan
Mentor: Dr.Jia Wu
Carolina Guerrero
Dartmouth College
Mentor: Dr. Katharina Schlacher
Thinh Huynh
College of Wooster
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie S. Watowich
Sindhuri Ivaturi
Washington University at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung
Anvita Kandru
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Patrick Hwu
Chazaleh Khodaparast
Univ. California- Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Joelle Kim
Baylor University
Mentor: Dr. George Calin
Zachary Kulstad
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Wargo
Sophie Liu
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Qianyun (Lexi) Luo
Univ.wisconsin- Madison
Mentor: Dr. Alexandre Reuben
Nothando (Thankdie) Mangena
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Bisrat Debeb
Joycelyn Mathew
University of Rochester
Mentor: Dr. Matt Gubin
Timothy Miller
University of Evansville
Mentor: Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Keri Nichols
University of Georgis
Mentor: Dr. Alexandre Reuben
Iyinyeoluwa Okulate
Univ. Maryland- Eastern Shore
Mentor: Dr. Francesca Cole
Meliza Perez
Wellesley College
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
Julia Powell
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Robert C. Bast, Jr.
Ayman Roslend
Univ. Illinois- Urbana
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung
Priya Sarlashkar
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Poojan Shukla
Univ. California- Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Katharina Sclacher
Simran Singh
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Kristy Brock
Llaran Turner (CPRIT '18, '19)
Hampton University
Mentor: Dr. susan Peterson
Helen Wang
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson
Lucas Warma
University of Toronto
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Mary Zhang
Carleton College
Summer Volunteer*
Raymond Zou
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Nidhi Sahni
Matthew Anderson
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. George Calin
Eliot behr
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Florian Muller
Manusree Bhatter
Univ. Texas- Dallas
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Emily Blitz
Univ. Arkansas- Ft. Smith
Mentor: Dr. Alexandre Reuben
Athena Brooks
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie S. Watowich
Brandon Curl
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung
Selena Ding
Univ. California- Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Georgios Karras
Alexandra Flegle
Smith College
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Benjamin George
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Erik Cressman
Morgan Green
Prairie View A&M University
Mentor: Drs. Jensen & Fowlkes
Kevin Guo
Stanford University
Mentor: Dr. Anirban Maitra
Andrew Ibrahim
Texas Tech University
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal
Rachael Johnson
Georgetown University
Mentor: Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Enes Kelestemur
Univ. Illinois- Urbana
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal
John Killough
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Kyle Jones
Jordan Kramer
Georgetown University
Mentor: Dr. Roza Nurieva
Nghi Lam (CPRIT '19)
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Catherine Luo
John Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Kelly Hunt
Aurian Maleki
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Sujay Marisetty
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Moiz Ahmad
Emma McCollum (CPRIT '19)
Washington Univ. at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. Kristy Brock
Anh Nguyen
Concordia College
Mentor: Dr. Bisrat Debeb
Lilia Olmstead
Univ. Texas- El Paso
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Reshmi Patel (CPRIT '19)
John Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson
Dzung Pham
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. Zhen Liu
Jonathan Qi
Standford University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Spencer Rothfuss
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. George Calin
Claire Shao
Williams College
Mentor: Dr. Lokesh Battula
One-Year Track Seniors (41)
Fall Semester (12)
DI 4300 Research Techniques in Radiologic Sciences (3)
DI 4313 Education Internship I (3)
DI 4323 Management Skills for New Supervisor (3)
HS 3270 Fundamentals of Writing and Critical Thinking (2)
HS 4100 Issues in Health Care Ethics (1)
Spring Semester (16)
DI 4301 Research Project (3)
DI 4310 Teaching Strategies in Healthcare Education (3)
DI 4314 Education Internship II (3)
DI 4319 Fiscal Analysis in Health-Care (3)
DI 4322 Effective Human Resource Management (3)
HS 4101 Diversity and Cultural Competence (1)
Summer Semester (13)
DI 4311 Instructional Design (3)
DI 4315 Issues in Health Care Education (3)
DI 4316 Leadership in Radiologic Sciences (3)
DI 4326 Individual Projects (3)
HS 4111 Medical Law (1)
Dominique Tan
Univ. Texas- Austin
Mentor: Dr. Moiz Ahmad
Madeleine Turner
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Karen Wang
Rive University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson
Matthew Watowich
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Robert C. Bast, Jr.
Xing-Han Zhang
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Georgios Karras
2019 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Kano Amagai
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Greg Lizee
Marcos Armendariz
University of
Texas at El Paso
Mentor: Dr. Filippo Giancotti
Sarah Becker
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Robert C. Bast, Jr.
Kian Behmard
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Georgios Karras
Miao Cao
University of Wisconsin -
Madison
Mentor: Dr.
Shao-Cong Sun
Juan Cerda
Houston Baptist
University
Mentor: Dr. Sean Post
Jodi Goldman
UCLA
Mentor: Dr. Caroline Chung
Alec Jacobson
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko
Justin Kim
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal
Neetij Krishnan
Saint Olaf
College
Mentor: Dr. Helen Piwnica-Worms
Emily Lasse
Purdue University - West
Layfayette
Mentors: Drs. Jones and Geck Do
Emma Lederer
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Raj Malhotra
Rutgers University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson
Gabriel Mesa
Wofford College
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Diana Odhiambo (CPRIT '18)
Benedict
College
Mentor: Dr. Roza Nurieva
Jonathan Qi
Stanford University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Carolina Ramirez
Abilene Christian
University
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Leah Salinsky
University of Texas at Austin '19
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
Current: Research Assistant, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Antonio (Vitor) Souza
Dartmouth
College
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur
Hannah Stumpf
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers
Sophia Tang
University of
Chicago
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Joey Toker
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Wargo
Llaran Turner (CPRIT '18)
Hampton
University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Nicole Wright
Vanderbilt
University
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Tiffany (Adrianne) Wu
Mount Holyoke
College
Mentor: Dr. Paul Scheet
2019 CPRIT Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
Sima Arfania
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Navin
Mehdi Baqri
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Hossein Bakhshandeh (CPRIT '17, '18)
Davidson College
Mentor. Dr.
James P. Allison
Mackenzie Bruzzio
Kenyon
College
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Zakaria Cherif
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Sanaz Ghotbaldini (CPRIT '18)
University of California - Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Marina Konopleva
Ameen Homayoon (CPRIT '18)
Brown
University
Mentor: Dr. Curtis Pickering
Rachael Johnson
Boston &
Georgetown Universities
Mentor: Dr.
Cullen Taniguchi
Anuradha Korukonda
Emory
University
Mentor: Drs. Jones & Fernandez
Nghi Lam
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Nhi Le
University of Houston -
Downtown
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal
Samuel Liu
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Seyed Moghaddam
Emma McCollum
Washington University
at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Jessica Nye
University of Texas at
Austin
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Reshmi Patel
Johns Hopkins
University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson
Kanchana Raja
Columbia
University
Mentors: Drs. Jones and Cross
Matthew Rosolen
University of
Charleston
Mentor: Dr. Sendurai Mani
Alexis Simmons
Baylor
University
Mentor: Dr. Kristy Brock
Carli Stewart (CPRIT '18)
Univ.
Tennessee - Knoxville
Mentor: Dr.
Michael Andreeff
Divya Sundararajan
Bryn Mawr
College
Mentor: Dr. Curtis Pickering
Mahima Thapa
Truman State
University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Andreeff
Anh Tran
Mount Holyoke College
Mentor: Dr. George Calin
Melinda Wang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Haoyi Wu
University of Texas at
Austin
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
2018 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Oluwapelumi (Esther) Akinwande
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Richard Behringer
Hossein Bakhshandeh
Davidson College
Mentor: Dr. James Allison
2019 Goldwater Scholar
Emily Caggiano
Ohio University '19
Mentor: Dr. Filippo Giancotti
Current: PhD Program, MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School
Allison Chang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Schluns
Ezzeddine (Ed) Elmir
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Robert Bast, Jr.
Sanaz Ghotbaldini
University of California at Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Marina Konopleva
Ameen Homayoon
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Nick Navin
Binisha Karki
Southeastern Louisiana University '19
Mentor: Dr. Willem Overwijk
Current: Research Assistant, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dowon Kim
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur
Samuel Oedi
University of Houston '19
Mentor: Dr. David Fuentes
Current: PhD Program in Physics, University of Houston
Caleb Kroll
Brandeis University
Mentor: Andrew Futreal
Aaron (Asaph) Kupferman
University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Sophie Lu
Williams College '19
Mentor: Dr. Bin Wang
Current: Research Assistant, Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard Affiliated)
Marisela Martinez de Kraatz
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
Lindsey Mortensen
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Steven Lin
Eduardo Quesada-Diaz
University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
Mentor: Dr. Candelaria Gomez-Manzano
Srikar Ranga
University of Texas at Austin '19
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano
Current: Master's in Public Health Program, UT Health
Thomas Rubino
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Carli Stewart
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Mentor : Dr. Michael Andreeff
Yusha Sun
Princeton University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Connor Tou
University of California at Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
2019 Goldwater Scholar
Meng Han (Ashley) Wu
University of Arizona '19
Mentor: Dr. Sean Post
Current: PhD program, University of Colorado - Denver
Kaveh Zare
University of California at Irvine
Mentor: Dr. Gan Boyi
2018 CPRIT CURE Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
Madeleine Andreas
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Sendurai Mani
Karina Bursch
Catholic University
of America '19
Mentor: Dr. Powel
Brown
Current :
MSTP (MD/PhD Program) at Univeristy of Minnesota
Nathan Carroll
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. George Eisenhoffer
Nicholas DeCleene
Hillsdale College '19
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Current: PhD Program, Baylor College of Medicine
Karen George
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Carolyn Guan
Princeton University
Mentor: Dr. Ron DePinho
Efiyenia (Fenia) Kaparos
Georgia Institute of Technology '19
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Current: PhD Program, NYU Langone
Dong Hwan (David) Kim
Brown University '19
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen
Current: Research Assistant, One Brave Idea at Brigham and Women's University
Jacqueline Kisa
Yale University '19
Mentor : Dr. Giulio Draetta
Current: Post-Bac Research Fellowship, Yale University
Oleksandr (Sasha) Kyrysyuk
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Jinjie Ling
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Zhimin Lu
Ariana Maleki
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. Greg Lizee
Sheighlah McManus
University of St. Thomas
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi
Diana Odhiambo
Benedict College
Mentor : Dr. Faye Johnson
Edie (Alex) Osuma
Wesleyan College
Mentor: Dr. Michael Curran
Shilpa Rajagopal
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor : Dr. Curtis Pickering
Sneha Rao
University of California at Berkeley '19
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Current: Research Assistant, University of California at San Francisco
Leah Salinsky
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Current: Research Assistant, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Anna Sabu Kurian
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Dan Frigo
Current:
Postbac at NIH
Heather Sweeney
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Myers
Llaran Turner
Hampton University
Mentor: Dr. Dihua Yu
Joycelyn Yiu
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. David Grosshans
Shoshana Zhang
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. David Piwnica-Worms
2017 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Sami Ahmad
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. James Allison
Rasha Bara
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers
Ria Brown
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. John Tainer
Edward Chen
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Molldrem
Josue Chirinos
Princeton University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko
Evelyn de Groot
Case Western Reserve University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Davies
Jacob Elnaggar
Baylor University
Mentor: Dr. Anil Korkut
Christina Hong
Emory University
Mentors: Drs. Elizabeth Grimm & Suhendan Ekmekcioglu
Jeremy Jong
UCLA
Mentor: Dr. Faye Johnson
Samah Khan
University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Trevin Kurtanich
University of Southern California
Mentor: Dr. Willem Overwijk
Jihoon Lim
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Armita Norouzi
UC Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
William Pangburn
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Nick Navin
David Alejandro Sanchez
University of Texas San Antonio
Mentor: Dr. Pawel Mazur
Vikram Shaw
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. John de Groot
Elizabeth Silver
University of Conneticut
Mentor:
Kristin Smoot
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Mentor:
Alison Vicary
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Andreeff
Christine Atik
John Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Filippo Giancotti
Lynn Bi
Columbia University
Mentor: Dr. John Hazle
Alexandra Brown
Mississippi State University
Mentor: Dr. George Eisenhower
Sam Chen
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Richard Buchard
Joanne Chung
Wellesley College
Mentor: Dr. Filippo Giancotti
Edward Diaz
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Myers
Roxana Hojjatie
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mentor: Dr. Dihua Yu
Ralf Krahe
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Ralf Krahe
Jonah Kan
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Shao-Cong Sun
Maryanne Kihiu
Bryn Mawr College
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi
JiYoung Lee
Carleton College
Mentor:
Andrea Ludwig
Kenyon College
Mentor: Dr. Anil Sood
Katherine Ortell
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Zachary Roccaforte
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Curtis Pickering
Yesha Shah
University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Cullen Taniguchi
Vinita Shivakumar
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Mani Sendurai
Sean Simonsen
Whitman College
Mentor:
Lidya Tadesse
John Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Lekha Yesantharao
Columbia University
Mentor: Dr. Katharina Schlacher
2016 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Asrar Alimohamed
Wofford College
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal
Efosa Amadasu
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Konstantin Sokolov
Matthew Cagley
University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Anirban Maitra
Julius Danquah
Philander Smith College
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Kurie
Ziyu Fan
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Yunfei Wen
Jessica Gibson
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Susan Peterson
Astrid Guevara
University of St. Thomas
Mentor: Dr. Menashe Bar Eli
Collin Harlan
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. James Bankson
Lisa Hom
Whittier College
Mentor: Dr. Francois Claret
Julia Josowitz
Kenyon College
Mentor: Dr. Patrick Hwu
Gabriela Lammoglia
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Kurie
Nicolas Martinez Sanchez
University of California Berkeley
Mentor:
Kelsey Montoya
New Mexico State University
Mentor: Dr. David Tweardy
Fatemeh Naini
Houston Baptist University
Mentor:
Amanda Ivette Pacheco Lebron
University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras
Mentor:
Nikita Maria-Jose Sankoorikkal
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko
Charles Slocum
Carleton College
Mentor:
Lisa Strong
University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen
Yizhen (Vicky) Weng
Northeastern University
Mentor: Dr. Jagannadha Sastry
Natalie Wu
University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Michael Curran
Brandon Alston
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gahndi
Deeksha Bidare
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano
Hannah Dakin
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Bin Wang
Safia Essein
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Bob Bast
Triana Fernandez
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton
Carolina Gonzalez Cavazos
Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
Mentor: Dr. Seyed Moghaddam
Harshit Gupta
University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Zhen Fan
Grant Hom
Case Western Reserve University
Mentors: Drs. Juan Fueyo and Candé Gomez-Manzano
Salena Huang
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Gladden
Rebecca Kazen
University of Colorado
Mentor: Dr. Russell Broaddu
Morayo Lawal
John Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Honami Naora
Emma McCormick
Rice University
Mentor:
Emma Moore
University of Houston
Mentor: Dr. Richard Behringer
Kristen Ott
Houston Baptist University
Mentor: Dr. George Eisenhoffer
Ante Rebic
Birmingham Southern College
Mentor: Dr. Xiaobing Shi
Sei Sho
Juniata College
Mentor: Dr. Boyi Gan
Haley Steinman
University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Sean Post
Malavika Suresh
Hillsdale College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Ben Whitfield
Davidson College
Mentor: Dr. Jim Allison
Stephanie Yang
Rice University
Mentor:
2015 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Yasamine Abbey
Vassar
Mentor: Dr. Liz Travis
Katherine Alexander
Washington University in St Louis
Mentor: Dr. Sendurai Mani
Varun Bansal
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Tsai
Waynesha Blaylock
Tougaloo College
Mentor: Dr. Powel H. Brown
Caitlyn Brashears
University of Texas Baylor University
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur
Sarah Cunningham
University of Georgia
Mentor: Dr. Eisenhoffer
Chloe Friedman
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Kavanya Gray
Ripon College
Mentor: Dr. Sue-Hwa Lin
Raquel Jaeger
The University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Xiaobing Shi
Karan Kathuria
The University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Edward Yeh
Mehrnoosh Kohansal Kallina
Texas A&M University - Commerce
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Androniki Mitrou
Grinnell College
Mentor: Dr. Jim Bankson
Tra Ngo
The University of Texas at Dallas
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Futreal
Kwadwo Owusu Ansah
Philander Smith College
Mentor: Dr. Boyi Gan
Mabel Perez-Oquendo
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Mentor: Dr. Craig Logsdon
Jennifer Schwieterman
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers
Martin Sentmanat
University of Dallas
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko
Joan Shang
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Jae-il Park
Feiya Sophia Shi
Washington University at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. Wendy Woodward
Miquel Sobral
John Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Sharon Syau
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen
Hieu Van
College of St. Benedict
Mentor: Dr. Seyed Moghaddam
Ryan Yang
Emory University
Mentor:
Nathan Akhavan
Yeshiva University
Mentor: Dr. Raghu Kalluri
Ashley Armantrout-Draisey
University of Northern Iowa
Mentor: Dr. Russell Broaddus
Parvathy Bhushan
Mount Holyoke College
Mentor: Dr. Elsa Flores
Joseph Bower
University of Arizona
Mentor: Dr. Dihua Yu
Jovita Byemerwa
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Zhimin Lu
Mazin Zaki Elsarrag
Virginia Commonwealth University
Mentor: Dr. Zahid Siddik
Maria Gonzalez
University of California Santa Cruz
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Gladden
Yulun He
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Mentor: Dr. Sunil Krishnan
Jennifer Julizar Schwieterman
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers
Sunada Khadka
Wesleyan College
Mentor: Dr. Ronald DePhino
Megan Mandile
Fordham University
Mentor:
Yismeilin Feliz Mosquea
University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen
Emily Nip
Wellesley College
Mentor: Dr. Anil Sood
Dana Paine
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Tomasz Zal
Bruce Plowshay
Berea College
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton
Shayak Sen
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Faye Johnson
Ankeeta Shah
Columbia University Barnard College
Mentor: Dr. Anirban Maitra
Soumya Shekhar
The University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. Dean Lee
Hannah Smati
Harvard University
Mentor:
Ellen Sukharevsky
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. David McConkey
Tristen Tellman
Hardin Simmons University
Mentor: Dr. Francois Claret
Rebecca Wiersma
Carleton College
Mentor:
Huilin (Erin) Yang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano
2014 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Anushree Agrawal
Yale University
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano
Andrew Alter
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Laura Beretta
Wei-Sheng (Jeff) Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor: Dr. James Allison
Mu Feng
Oregon State University
Mentor: Dr. Pierre McCrea
Selena Hernandez Carmona
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Emily Hillmer
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Stephan Cheng Hu
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Sandurai Mani
Nicolas Hyun Ledru
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Molldrem
Nicholas King
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton
Ryan P. Larger
Ohio State University
Mentor: Dr. John Hazle
Helen Lu
University of North Texas
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi
Alexandra Makara
Fordham University
Mentor: Dr. Russell Broaddus
Zachary Mastrovich
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:
Matthew Metzinger
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:
Nkechi Nwabueze
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Francios Claret
Rachel Robinson
Louisiana State University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Alaina Roth
Texas A&M University
Mentor: Dr. Francois Claret
Valeria Sanabria Guillen
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Shao-Cong Sun
Janaya Shelly
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mentor:
Lauren Renee Smith
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Aly Valliani
Swarthmore College
Mentor: Dr. Lauren Byers
Wenyue (Ivy) Wu
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Tomasz Zal
Cynthia Nalleli Alanis
Saint Edwards University University
Mentor: Dr. Jessica Tyler
Carson Bogatto
The University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Dennis Hughes
Annie Dai
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. Laurence Cooper
Renato Guerrieri
Davidson College
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi
Madeleine Hewitt
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Phuc Hoang
Oxford University
Mentor: Dr. Bill Plunkett
Anh Phuong Huynh
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko
Barbara Kim
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Dr. Ron Depinho
Sushanth Kumar
University of Arkansas
Mentor: Dr. Ralf Krahe
Kyle Lewellen
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:
Grace J. Ma
University of Miami
Mentor:
Kristen Maslar
The University of Scranton
Mentor: Dr. Powell Brown
Megan McGarel
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:
Grace Newick
University of Virginia
Mentor: Dr. Vicki Huff
Shyam Popat
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Gladden
Miguel Alexandro Rodriquez
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. David McConkey
Fatema Saifuddin
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Guerrero
Elisa Shaphia Shamese James
Grambling State University
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Guerrero
Wesley Skillern
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Phuoc (Tien) Tran
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Dean Lee
Jessica Wilder
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Joan Zhang
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. Raghu Kalluri
2013 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Joseph Botros
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton
Vivian Chang
Bryn Mawr College
Mentor: Dr. Elsa Flores
Adrienne Chestang
Prairie View A&M
Mentor: Dr. William Plunkett
Alexi Choueiri
Arizona State University
Mentor: Dr. Zhimin Lu
Melissa Dang
University of Oklahoma
Mentor: Dr. David McConkey
Zhou Fang
the University of Texas Austin
Mentor: Dr. Peter Ruvolo
Vivian Fu
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Chinonye (Nonye) Imo
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. William Overwijk
Johnathan Dexuan Jia
Emory University
Mentor: Dr. Shao-Cong Sun
Brooke Kania
Bucknell University
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Gladden
Chongjin (Nick) Lee
Texas Tech
Mentor:
Yun Liang
Princeton University
Mentor:
Robert Lusi
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Richard Anthony Meena
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:
Juliet Austin Murray
San Francisco State University
Mentor:
Lindy Pence
Wofford College
Mentor: Dr. Charles Adelmann
Shannon Reinert
Middlebury College
Mentor: Dr. Roza Nurieva
Andrea Schneider
State University of New York Buffalo
Mentor: Dr. Jae-il Park
Kathryn E. Squiers
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:
Thomas Vu
Xavier University of Louisiana
Mentor: Dr. Howard Gutstein
Jennifer Wray
Dartmouth College
Mentor: Dr. Giulio Draetta
Nicole Yson
Rutgers University
Mentor: Dr. Isabelle Bedrosian
Yurun Zhang
University of Wisconsin
Mentor: Dr. Powel Brown
Francis G. Celii
Saint Louis University
Mentor: Dr. Gigi Lozano
Jeremy Cheatam
University of Nevada, Reno
Mentor: Dr. Edward Jackson
Hyang Ki Cho
Washington University at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. Anil Sood
Kegan Cunniff
Carroll College
Mentor: Dr. Vicki Huff
Chris Ellis
Duke University
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Kaitlyn Fragogiannis Cahuzac
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mentor: Dr. David McConkey
Martha Cecilia Guerra
Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
Mentor: Dr. Jessica Tyler
Patrick Jia Huang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Michael Galko
Jerry Jiang
Pomona College
Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Navin
Christina D. Kwon
Harvard University
Mentor: Dr. Ralf Krahe
Bonnie Leung
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Bill Plunkett
Dale Lobo
University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Dr. Francois Claret
Elisabeth Massey Baquet
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Carmin Munoz Lavanderos
Columbia University
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Myers
Miriam Ortega
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Mentor: Dr. Jagannadha Sastry
Shalini Ranmuthu
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Dr. Jason Stafford
Jose Mario Rodriguez
The University of Texas at Brownsville
Mentor: Dr. Francois Claret
Jay V. Shah
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Southern Methodist University
Mentor: Dr. Jill Schumacher
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Stacey Yi
Rice University
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Justin Xiyao Yu
Duke University
Mentor:
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Charles (Hank) Adelmann
Rice University
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Mary Blake (Meyer)
California State University-Sacramento
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Ferris State University
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Elisa Glubok Gonzalez
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. David McConkey
Tamara Griffiths
Texas A&M at Corpus Christi
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Athena Huang
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Dong Chen
Kaveeta Kaw
The University of Texas at Austin
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Roger Liang
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Kwong
Lauren Mason
Rutgers University
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Myers
Chiara Prodani
Texas A&M Corpus Christi & Del Mar College
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Chayanit Sasiponganan
The University of Texas at Austin
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Harkiran Sodhi
University of California Berkeley
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Shayda Alaghemand (O'Hara)
San Francisco State University
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Allison Bloom
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Carrie Danielson
Brown University
Mentor: Dr. Gary Gallick
Lavanya Dharmarajan
The University of Texas
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Mira Gandhi
The University of Texas
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Jolie Graf Schafer
Houston Baptist University
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Gillian Horwitz
Brown University
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Akshay Jaggi
Stanford University
Mentor: Dr. Jihong Wang
Bethany LaVergne
Northwestern State University
Mentor: Dr. Varsha Gandhi
Marisa Luck
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Brandon Tien Nguyen
The University of Texas at Austin
Mentor:
Sonakshi Sahu
Anna University (India)
Mentor: Dr. Elsa Flores
Jerry So
The University of Texas
Mentor: Dr. John Hazle
2011 CPRIT CURE Alumni
Carolina Alexander-Rodriguez (Savino)
Rochester Intitute of Technology
Mentor: Dr. Junjie Chen
Jessica Jie Chen
Washington University at St. Louis
Mentor: Dr. Swathi Arur
Jasmine Ginn
Howard University
Mentor:
Henry Han
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Barton
Lotanna Pamela Ikeotuonye
Howard University
Mentor: Dr. Joya Chandra
Lauren Larrabure
University of California Berkeley
Mentor:
Mirna Martinez
Howard University
Mentor:
Sarah Schuhmacher
Trinity University
Mentor: Dr. Pierre McCrea
David Walker
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Dean Lee
Yasaman Azodi
University of Washington
Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Aldape
Kevin Chen
University of Toronto
Mentor: Dr. Elsa Flores
Jung Hyun Gloria
University of Notre Dame
Mentor:
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Murray State University
Mentor: Dr. William Plunkett
YeJi Jun
Carleton College
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Watowich
Morgan Marie Malloy
Florida State University
Mentor:
Leila Salehi
University of California Berkeley
Mentor: Dr. Khandan Keyomarsi
Amanda Walborn
Rice University
Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Schluss