
BRANDON YE (HE/HIM) – CURE Co-Lead
Major: Quantitative Biology
Minor: Artificial Intelligence Applications
Joined: Fall 2021
Research Focus: Substantiating predictive models for metastatic relapse in newly diagnosed upper tract urothelial carcinoma patients utilizing a multi-cancer liquid biopsy approach.

MONICA RODRIGUEZ (SHE/HER) – CURE Co-Lead
Major: Quantitative Biology
Minor: Culture Competence in Medicine
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Investigating the impact of copy number alterations on gene expression programs in prostate cancer cell lines

ANDREW UDOV – CURE Co-Lead
Major: Human Biology
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Liquid biopsy-mediated circulating rare cell analysis in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients treated with PSCA targeted CAR-T cell therapy

AMY HUANG
Major: Biological Sciences
Minor: Healthcare Studies, Entrepreneurship
Joined: Fall 2021
Research Focus: Examining the Clinical Utility of Liquid Biopsy In Predicting Disease Progression in Urothelial Carcinoma Patients

EMMETT LILJEGREN
Major: Human Biology
Minor: Spanish
Joined: Fall 2021
Research Focus: Improve the understanding of early-stage breast cancer through analyzing peripheral blood samples from before and after surgical resection of the primary tumor

SRIKAR KOLLURU (HE/HIM)
Major: Human Biology
Minor: Health Care Studies
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Liquid-Biopsy-Mediated Rare Cell Analysis of Patients with Triple Negative Breast Cancer

ANYA SHAH
Major: Global Health
Minor: Natural Sciences
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Evaluation of CTC dynamics as a biomarker of anti-tumoral effect of ketamine therapy in non-small cell lung cancer.

THERESA LUO
Major: Biological Sciences (Biotechnology)
Minor: Healthcare Studies
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Extracellular microvesicles in multiple myeloma: bridging cellular and plasma-based liquid biopsy

SAMUEL LIU
Major: Human Biology
Joined: Spring 2023
Research Focus: Channel Classifier Development for Multi-Cancer Rare Cell Characterization

VIDUR MUSHRAN
Major: Neuroscience
Minor: Artificial Intelligence Applications
Joined: Spring 2023
Research Focus: Developing a rare cell characterization map for clustering and defining liquid biopsy profiles

ASHLEY ASANTE-MANU
Major: Human Biology, Global Health
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Developing enhanced screening and diagnostic workup for pancreatic cancer

BAISHALI CHAUDHURI
Major: Biochemistry
Minor: Cinematic Arts
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Legacy

CAMILLA PLASCENCIA
Major: Human Biology, Global Medicine
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Characterizing the liquid biopsy in osteosarcoma

SRIRAM SESHADRI
Major: Biological Sciences
Minor: Mathematics
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Characterization of cellular and acellular analytes from liquid biopsies in patients with bladder cancer

STEVE SOTO TRUJILLO
Major: Human Biology
Minor: Latin American Studies
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Liquid Biopsy Profiles and Clinical Outcomes across Head/Neck and Lung Cancer Patients during a Novel Immunotherapy

JEFFREY KANG
Major: Computer Science
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Deep morphological profiling of circulating rare cells in peripheral blood of cancer patients

CLAUDIA BJERREGAARD
Major: Biochemistry
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Oligometastatic pancreatic cancer treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy

ANDREW NGUYEN
Major: Biochemistry
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Circulating tumor cells for early detection of uveal melanoma metastasis

KATE OLSEN
Major: Quantitative Biology
Minor: Artificial Intelligence Applications
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Single cell multi-omics analyses to resolve the heterogeneity of cancer cells in the ascites of ovarian cancer patients

AYLA SEDDIGHNEZHAD
Major: Human Biology
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Evaluating the Sensitivity and Targeting Efficiency of Nanoparticle-based Contrast Agents in Liquid Biopsy Samples for Personalized Medicine

ANMOL SINGHAL
Major: Quantitative Biology
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Bioinformatics Analysis for Circulating Cell-Free DNA in Cancer

ANDREW LIM
Major: Biochemistry
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: Lung Cancer (SU)

EVALINA LENTINI
Major: Quantitative Biology
Minor: Dance
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: Rare Cell Morphometric Analysis and Comparison

JAMIE KIM
Major: Human Biology, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: Plasma Cell Characterization in Multiple Myeloma

CELESTE VILLA
Major: Pharmacology and Drug Development
Minor: Dance
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: Monitoring Disease Response to CAR T Cell Therapy in HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients Using Liquid Biopsies

ZACHARY EGGLETON
Major: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Environmental Studies
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: Rare Cell Morphometric Analysis and Comparison

SIDDHANT CHAUDHARY
Major: Biological Sciences (Molecular Biology)
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: Characterizing the Liquid Biopsy in Osteosarcoma

BROOKE OTTAWAY
Major: Biological Sciences (Biotechnology)
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: EV in Retinoblastoma

TRACY WANG
Major: Human Development and Aging
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: S1416 Triple Negative Breast Cancer

MIHIKA JOSHI
Major: Biochemistry
Minor: Business
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: Early Breast Cancer Screening

ETHEN CHEN
Major: Quantitative Biology, Human Development and Aging
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Focus: Fine-Mapping Structural Variants in Single Circulating Tumor Cells Identified with HDSCA