Alumni
Undergraduates/Summer Fellows
Junlone Moy 2020
undergrad student
Jun was a UIC Honor’s college undergraduate student working under the direction of Angela Russo. He is attending UIC COP in 2020.
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Kanella Eliadis 2020
undergrad student
Kanella was a UIC Honor’s college undergraduate student recently accepted to the UIC COP. She was mentored by Jose.
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Kimberly Heath-Borrero 2020
undergrad student
Kim was UIC Honor’s college undergraduate student at UIC that came from the University of Puerto Rico and was part of the L@s GANAS program. She is currently working for a year at the CDC.
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Rocio Rivera 2019
undergrad student
Rocio was an ASPET SURF student from the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Camps. She was a MARC fellow and ABRCMS poster winner from her SURF work in our lab. She will join us as a PHD student in the class of 2020.
Samantha Watry 2019
PHARMD Student
Samantha is a UIC PharmD student who worked on a Riback fellowship with Dr. Salvi.
Denisse Herrera 2017-2019
undergrad student
Denisse was a UIC Honor’s student who graduated in 2018. She left to be a student in the U. of Iowa College of Pharmacy.
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Peter Varughese 2017-2019
undergrad student
Peter was a UIC Honor’s college undergraduate mentored by Jose. He is currently obtaining his Master’s degree at Loyola.
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Vivian Jin 2018
undergrad student
Vivian was a UIC GPPA Medicine Student who graduated as the Louis Pasteur winner for Biology in 2018. She attended Oxford for her MS before coming back to UIC to obtain her MD degree.
Nidhi Suthar 2017
undergrad student
Nidhi was a UIC GPPA Medicine student in 2017 and is currently working towards her MD at UIC. She was mentored by Laura and Angela.
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Alvina Shaikh 2017
undergrad student
Alvina was a UIC Honor’s College student who is now attending medical school. She worked with Matt on the Evil Ovary.
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Demi Chae 2016
undergrad student
Demi graduated with honors in 2016 and went to UIC Pharmacy school. She was mentored by Subbu.
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Seth Baligod 2015
undergrad student
Seth was a UIC honor’s student who worked with Dr. Russo and then transferred to Northwestern to finish his studies.
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Whay Cheng 2012-2013
undergraduate
Whay was a Biochemistry major in the UIC Honor’s college. She is now attending osteopathic medical school in California.
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Estella Huang 2013
undergraduate
Estella was in the UIC Honor’s college and worked under the guidance of Georgette. She then went on the get her M.D. at UIC.
Patricia Corona 2012-2013
undergraduate
Patricia was in the UIC Honor’s college. She finished her capstone and left for medical school.
Amanda Czekaj 2011-2012
undergraduate
Amanda completed her Capstone project in the lab. She recently graduated with her PHARMD from UIC.
Roshni Patel undergraduate 2011-2012
Roshni was a UIC Honor’s college student. She received a PHARMD at the UIC College of Pharmacy.
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Brandon Chiu 2010-2011
undergraduate
Brandon was a UIC undergraduate who worked with Suzanne.
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Keerthi Raju 2011-2012
undergraduate
Keerthi was a UIC Honor’s college student. She graduated as valedictorian of her PHARMD class at UIC.
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Selwyn Erapuram 2011
undergraduate
Selwyn completed his bachelor’s degree and worked with Tyvette Hilliard.
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Rosemarie Tagare 2011
undergrad student
Rosemarie was a UIC Honor’s College student who then got her PHARMD at UIC. She worked with Dimple on getting her Pax Straight.
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Amanda Muehlbauer 2008-2010
undergraduate
Mandy finished her MD at Rosalind Franklin, is an ER doctor, and my neighbor! She worked on GSK3-beta inhibitors as drugs against ovarian cancers.
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Fitsum Tesfamicael 2011
undergraduate
Fits was a UIC undergraduate who worked under the guidance of Suzanne.
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Lucia Wu 2008-2010
undergraduate
Lucy got her PHARMD from UIC. She worked on the role of the fallopian tube in ovarian cancer as a capstone with Shelby.
Angel Hernandez high school student 2017
Angel was a high school student from UIC PREP who worked for the summer with Laura on PAX8.
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Sylvia Swiercz, ACS Summer Intern 2013
Sylvia graduated high school and went to U. of Pennsylvania. She was selected into the ACS program and worked under the guidance of Dimple.
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Asma Patel ACS Summer Intern 2012
Asma was a student at von Struben Metro Science Center. She was selected into the American Cancer Society Summer Research Program.
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