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OUR TEAM

Lexi Pero
Undergraduate

Mena Shammas
PharmD student, UCSD

Madison Oogjen
Undergraduate
House Lab Alumni

Ryne Holmberg, PhD
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Jenny Waters, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Anna Platen
Visiting Scholar

Cassidy Lucht, MS

Sofia Valencia
Undergraduate

Carolina Navarrete
Undergraduate

Cecilia Gallo, MS
Research Assistant, Rome, Italy
Luis Cruz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow UCSD
PhD student University of Würzburg


Isabella Amador
Undergraduate
Emily Rodriguez
Undergraduate



Darren Lighter, MS
Senior Research Associate
Epic Sciences
Alexa Fernandez
Postbaccalaureate
Sam Gilbert, MS, MPH
Lab Manager, Research Specialist

Cassie Brenner, MS
Scientist, Johnson and Johnson




Mia Hedrick
Evan Kordovi
Katelyn Shelby
Emily Kogan
Stanford Medical School
Undergraduate
Research Associate, Biolegend
PhD student, UC Santa Cruz




Undergraduate
Natalie Moghadam
Emily Mu, MS
Now Research Associate II, Genentech
Denay Stevenson, MS
Now Associate Scientist, Vividion Therapeutics
Ixchel Urbano
Research Assistant, Calibr

Jacqueline Lara, MS
Now Research Associate II at
City of Hope


Morgan Johnson
Now Research Associate at UCSD
Savanna Cashell
Christine Wang
Now in PA school
Now Clinical Research Coordinator at UCSF
Julia Florenzano
Now in Nursing School


Logan Alexander
Now in Medical School

Sam Green
Postbaccalaureate Intern

Omid Patrus
Now in Podiatric Medical School

Alex Horkowitz, MS
Now a PhD student at GWU



Kimiya Banai
Valeria Ochoa Tinoco
Now in Medical School
Now a Community Educator
Zinia Sarwar
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Now contract researcher at Leidos
TEAM ACHIEVEMENTS
Sofia Howe
SACNAS National Diversity in Stem Conference 2024
Best Graduate Poster Presentation in Life Sciences
Sofia Howe
President's Award
Poster Presentation, SDSU Student Symposium 2023
Omar Lujano
Dean's Award
Poster Presentation, SDSU Student Symposium, 2023
Mena Shammas
Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Poster Presentation, SDSU Student Symposium 2023
Megan Keene
Dean's Award
Poster Presentation, SDSU Student Symposium, 2023
Steffy Mathew
Summer 2022
Summer Undergraduate Research Award
Omar Lujano
SACNAS National Diversity in Stem Conference 2022
Best Graduate Oral Presentation in Cancer Biology
Omar Lujano
CSU-ICM 2022
Best Graduate Oral Presentation
Luis Cruz
CSU-ICM 2022
Best Graduate Poster Presentation
Mikella Robinson
CSU-ICM 2022
Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation
Luis Cruz
Fall 2022
CIRM Predoctoral Fellowship
Luis Cruz
Fall 2022
Prebys Biomedical Research Endowed Scholarship
Omar Lujano
Fall 2022
Prebys Biomedical Research Endowed Scholarship
Luis Cruz
Fall 2021
Prebys Biomedical Research Endowed Scholarship
Omar Lujano
Fall 2021
Rees-Stealy Research Foundation Fellowship
Ixchel Urbano
Summer 2021
Summer Undergraduate Research Award
Jenny Waters
Spring 2021
President's Award
SDSU Student Research Symposium
Jenny Waters
Spring 2020
ThermoFisher Cancer Research Foundation Oncomine Grant
Jackie Lara
Winter 2020
1st place poster presentation
CSU-ICM Virtual Conference
Jennifer Waters
Fall 2021
Awarded ARCS scholarship
Omar Lujano
Spring 2021
Awarded SDSU University Graduate Fellowship!
Jenny Waters
Spring 2021
Rees-Stealy Research Foundation Fellowship
Jackie Lara
Spring 2020
Frontiers in Stem Cells and Cancer
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta GA
Valeria Ochoa
Spring 2019
Dean's Award
SDSU Student Research Symposium
Valeria Ochoa and Kimiya Banai
Summer 2019
Summer Undergraduate Research Award
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