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OUR TEAM
Sam Gilbert, MS, MPH
Lab Manager, Research Specialist
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Jenny Waters
PhD candidate
Mikella Robinson, PhD
Co-lab manager, Research Specialist
Omar Lujano
PhD candidate
Ryne Holmberg
PhD candidate
Luis Cruz
PhD student
Cassidy Lucht
Master's student
Katelyn Shelby
Undergraduate
Mia Hedrick
Undergraduate
Darren Lighter
Master's student
Alexa Fernandez
Undergraduate
Evan Kordovi
Undergraduate
Cassie Brenner
Master's student
Steffy Mathew
Undergraduate
Mena Shammas
Undergraduate
House Lab Alumni
Emily Mu, MS
Research Associate II, Genentech
Emily Kogan
PhD Program, UC Santa Cruz
Denay Stevenson, MS
Natalie Moghadam
Ixchel Urbano
Undergraduate
Associate Scientist, Vividion Therapeutics
Undergraduate
Jacqueline Lara, MS
Now Research Associate II at
City of Hope
Morgan Johnson
Now Research Associate at UCSD
Savanna Cashell
Christine Wang
Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Logan Alexander
Now in Medical School
Julia Florenzano
Now in Nursing School
Sam Green
Postbaccalaureate Intern
Omid Patrus
Now in Podiatric Medical School
Alex Horkowitz, MS
Kimiya Banai
Valeria Ochoa Tinoco
Now a PhD student at GWU
Now undergraduate at USC
Now a Community Educator
Zinia Sarwar
Now contract researcher at Leidos
TEAM ACHIEVEMENTS
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
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
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
Steffy Mathew
Summer 2022
Summer Undergraduate Research Award
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
Mikella Robinson, et al.
Characterization of SOX2, OCT4 and NANOG in Ovarian Cancer Tumor-Initiating Cells
Cancers (Basel) 2021
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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