I am a rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Environmental Health Sciences in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. I became interested in stem cells through my position as a research fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in the Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology …
My name is Jeffrey Gu, and I am a neuroscience major and computer science minor at Duke University. This summer, I worked with the Ellerby lab at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California. The Ellerby lab studies the molecular mechanisms underlying nerve cell death in Huntington’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. …
Science has always been a great joy of mine for as long as I can remember. As a student pursuing a degree in biochemistry through the chemistry department at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), I have worked as an undergraduate researcher for two years in the lab of Dr. Alison Butler studying mechanistic …
Namaste! My name is Sumedh Anand Sontakke, and I am a junior majoring in electrical engineering at the College of Engineering, Pune, India. This summer, I will be working at the University of Oxford as a SRF Summer Scholar under the supervision of Professor Chas Bountra and Dr. David Brindley. I developed an interest in …
My name is Alefia Kothambawala, and I am a rising junior at the University of California, Davis, studying Biomedical Engineering. When I came across the SENS Research Foundation, I was immediately drawn to the projects being researched. I noticed the unique way SENS scientists think about problems – preventing disease before they manifest – and …
My name is Tianhan Deng, and I am a rising junior at the University of California, Berkeley. I am pursuing a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology with an emphasis on developmental genetics and a degree in clinical psychology. I have been particularly interested in the field of neuro-oncology and how genetic profiles of each …
Hi, my name is Shil Patel, and I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in December 2016 with a BS in neuroscience and minors in chemistry and economics. Under the mentorship of Dr. Sharyl Fyffe-Maricich, my honor’s thesis examined the potential role of aberrant oligodendrocyte development as a leading cause of the …
My name is Jasmine Zhao, and I am a rising senior at the University of California, Los Angeles majoring in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and minoring in biomedical research. Having the opportunity to work in different labs these past three years has not only increased my fascination with the applications of research in …
My name is Srinidhi Venkatesan Kalavai. I am a student at Boston University, majoring in Biomedical Engineering. As I grew up, a lot of my family were afflicted with age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease and cancer. Seeing the impact such diseases had not only on my grandparents but also on everyone in my family …
Hi! My name is Anja Schempf, and I am a rising sophomore at the University of Chicago, where I plan on double majoring in Biology and Molecular Engineering. I have always had an interest in the biological basis of aging, which is what initially drew me to the SRF Summer Scholars Program. I am intrigued …
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