Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Students

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Ammal Abbasi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Cemil Can Ali Marandi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Maria Luisa Amaral

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Bing Ren

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Fatemeh Amrollahi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


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Ethan Armand

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Erick Armingol

Erick Armingol

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Nathan E. Lewis

Research Interests: Metabolic modeling and multicellular interactions to predict phenotypes

Degrees:

B.S., Molecular Biotechnology, Universidad de Chile, 2013
Engineer in Molecular Biotechnology, Universidad de Chile, 2015

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-22 Becas Chile - CONICYT (Chilean Government Scholarship)
2018-22 Fulbright Scholarship
2023 Siebel Scholar

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Jessica Au

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Mathematics and Scientific Computation- Biology emphasis, University of California, Davis, 2017
Minor, Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, University of California, Davis, 2017

Hratch Baghdassarian

Hratch Baghdassarian

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Nathan E. Lewis

Research Interests: Cell-Cell Communication; Genome-Scale Modeling; Mammalian Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2017
B.S., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
2022-2023 Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellowship: Research Participation Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Arjana Begzati

Arjana Begzati

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Metabolomics

Degrees:

B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2019

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Dante Bolzan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Aaron Boussina

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program


Lauryn Bruce

Lauryn Bruce

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

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Yuwei Cao

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Owen Chapman

Owen Chapman

Advisor(s): Jill Mesirov

Degrees:

B.A., Computer Science, Pomona College, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

2017-20 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

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Eduardo Charvel

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Den Chen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Daisy Chen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Elizabeth Winzeler

Degrees:

B.S., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
B.S., Computational and Systems Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Chien-Ju Chen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Apurva Chitre

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Michael Cuoco

Michael Cuoco

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Fred (Rusty) Gage, Eran Mukamel

Research Interests: Genomics approaches to understanding retrotransposon activity in the human brain

Degrees:

B.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Trinity College-Connecticut, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

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Jenny Dong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


Xiaomi Du

Xiaomi Du

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Biology, Caltech, 2016

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Vicente Fajardo Rosas

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Yi Fu

Yi Fu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Ruth Williams

Research Interests: Stochastic Processes, Epigenetics

Degrees:

B.S., Mathematics (Applied), University of California, San Diego, 2016
B.S., Biology with specialization in Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2016

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Lia Gale

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Aidan Glina

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


Karla P. Godinez-Macias

Karla P. Godinez-Macias

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Elizabeth Winzeler, Nathan E. Lewis

Degrees:

B.S., Computer Science, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2016
M.S., Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2019

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Cristian Gonzalez-Colin

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Wilfredo Gonzalez-Rivera

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Caitlin Guccione

Caitlin Guccione

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Kit Curtius, Rob Knight

Research Interests: Cancer microbiome & mathematical modeling

Degrees:

B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island
B.A., Computer Science, University of Rhode Island
M.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Carlos Guzman

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Sven Heinz, Christopher Benner

Research Interests: Gene regulation, enhancer biology, chromatin regulation

Degrees:

B.S., Biology, University of Texas-Pan American, 2013
M.S., Biology, University of Texas-Pan American, 2015

Special Funding/Awards:

2017-19 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
​Sloan Scholars Fellowship
Competitive EDGE Fellowship
2019 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

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Bhavya Harjai

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Jennifer Havens

Jennifer Havens

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Joel Wertheim

Research Interests: Virus evolution and phylogenetics, molecular epidemiology

Degrees:

B.S., Mathematical and Computational Biology, Harvey Mudd College, 2018

Hsuan-Lin Her

Hsuan-Lin Her

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Gene Yeo

Research Interests: RNA-binding protein function

Degrees:

M.D., Taipei Medical University, 2019

Special Funding/Awards:

J Yang Foundation Fellowship

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Ryan Hillary

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Christopher Benner

Research Interests: Transcription Initiation and Regulation, Enhancer Biology, Gene Regulation

Degrees:

B.S., Bioinformatics, Brigham Young University, 2014

Pratibha Jagannatha

Pratibha Jagannatha

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Gene Yeo

Research Interests: Transcriptomics

Degrees:

B.S. Biomolecular Engineering

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

ARCS Scholar

Alex Jambor

Alex Jambor

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Physics, Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017

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Jeff Jaureguy

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

2023-25 Human Genetics Scholar Award from the American Society of Human Genetics


Bojing Jia

Bojing Jia

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Bing Ren, Albert Hsiao

Research Interests: Spatial transcriptomics, computer vision

Degrees:

B.Sc., Quantitative Biology, McGill University, 2015

Special Funding/Awards:

2024 Siebel Scholar Award

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Brian Johnson

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program


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Adam Jussila

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Azhar Khandekar

Azhar Khandekar

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Biochemistry, University of Washington, 2016

Special Funding/Awards:

National Cancer Institute's Cancer Research Training Award

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Jihoon Kim

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Adam Klie

Adam Klie

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter

Degrees:

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Emily Kobayashi

Emily Kobayashi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2019

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Zane Koch

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Eric Kofman

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Jonathan Lam

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program


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David Laub

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program


Ko-Han Lee

Ko-Han Lee

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter

Research Interests: Cancer immunology

Degrees:

M.D., National Taiwan University, 2019

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Adam Li

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Clarence Mah

Clarence Mah

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter, Gene Yeo

Research Interests: Transcriptomics, RNA regulation, RNA localization, reproducible research

Degrees:

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego 2016

Special Funding/Awards:

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

UCSD Genetics Training Program

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Behrooz Mamandipoor

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Arya Massarat

Arya Massarat

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Fine-mapping, Reproducibility

Degrees:

B.S., Mathematical and Computational Biology, Harvey Mudd College, 2020

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

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Daira Melendez

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Douglas Meyer

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA, 2017

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Alex Monell

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Hannah Mummey

Hannah Mummey

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Kyle Gaulton

Degrees:

B.S., Biochemistry, Wellesley College, 2020

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Jacklyn Newsome

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Jennifer Nguyen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Samuel Nkrumah

Samuel Nkrumah

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Biology, Fisk University, 2018

Special Funding/Awards:

UC-HBCU Initiative Fellowship

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Adam Officer

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Jonathan Pekar

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2023 Siebel Scholar


Daniela Perry

Daniela Perry

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Statistics, Cornell University

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Anh Pham

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Sigma Delta Epsilon Tau Chapter Fellowship


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Timothy Pham

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program


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Avery Pong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


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Anna Qi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics


Gege Qian

Gege Qian

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Applied Math, University of California San Diego, 2019
M.S., Immunology, Harvard Medical School, 2021

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Eleonora Rachtman

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Gibraan Rahman

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Joaquin Reyna

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

Bioengineering: Bioinformatics Bsc

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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Molly Sacks

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Jonathan Sebat

Degrees:

B.A., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 2022

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Daniela Salgado Figueroa

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Ali Sapci

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Timothy Sears

Timothy Sears

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter

Research Interests: Cancer immunotherapy response prediction

Degrees:

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Santa Barbara, 2020

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Omar Shanta

Omar Shanta

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Jonathan Sebat

Degrees:

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 2015
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2019

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Sam Shen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Wei Wang

Degrees:

B.ASc., Biomedical Engineering (Bioinformatics Track), University of British Columbia, 2021

Severine Soltani

Severine Soltani

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Benjamin Smarr

Degrees:

B.S., Cognitive Science w/ Specialization in Machine Learning and Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, 2020
Minor, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 2020

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Jesse Solvason

Jesse Solvason

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Emma Farley

Research Interests: Synthetic Biology, Transcriptional Regulation, Sequencing Based High-Throughput Screens

Degrees:

B.S. Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology; Minor in Chemistry

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Kimberly Spaulding

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

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James Talwar

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Juan Tibocha Bonilla

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Felipe Vasquez Castro

Felipe Vasquez Castro

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Metabolomics, bile acids

Degrees:

B.S., Chemistry, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020

Daniella Vo

Daniella Vo

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2020

Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Yotam Voskoboynik

Yotam Voskoboynik

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

Xingzhao Wen

Xingzhao Wen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Sheng Zhong

Research Interests: RNA interactome, Genome organization

Degrees:

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, China, 2018

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Sherlyn Weng

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Alexander Wenzel

Alexander Wenzel

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Advisor(s): Jill Mesirov

Research Interests: Bulk and single cell RNA-seq algorithms development and analysis

Degrees:

B.S., Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31)

2017-20 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Cancer Cell Map Initiative: Cancer Systems Biology Training Program Award

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Sarah Wright

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Trey Ideker

Research Interests: Network genetics

Degrees:

M.Eng. Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
B.S. Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017

Cynthia Wu

Cynthia Wu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Melissa Gymrek, Alon Goren

Degrees:

B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2017
Minor, Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, 2017
M.S., Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, 2020

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Heng Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


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Tianyao Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Alon Goren, Christopher Benner

Degrees:

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2021
B.S., Mathematics (Applied), University of California, San Diego, 2021


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Grace Yu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Degrees:

B.S., Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2021

Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Nancy Yuan

Nancy Yuan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Degrees:

M.S., Biology, UC San Diego, 2017

B.S., Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 2015

B.A., History, University of Texas at Austin, 2014

Special Funding/Awards:

2018-21 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

2022-23 TRDRP (Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program) Predoctoral Research Fellowship

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Jessica Zhou

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Degrees:

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2017

Special Funding/Awards:

2017-18 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics
2019-20 Fulbright Study/Research Award