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Principal Investigator

Miri VanHoven, PhD

miri.vanhoven@sjsu.edu

Lab Managers / Research Associates

Vanessa Garcia

vanessa.a.garcia@sjsu.edu

Master's Students

Andrew Bykov

andrew.bykov@sjsu.edu

Colton Duke

colton.duke@sjsu.edu

Hazel Guillen

hazel.guillen@sjsu.edu

Maleiyah Harris

maleiyah.harris@sjsu.edu

Emma Odisho

emma.odisho@sjsu.edu

Price Pettit

price.pettit@sjsu.edu

Kateryna Tokalenko

kateryna.tokalenko@sjsu.edu

Undergraduate Researchers

Gabriel Hertel

gabriel.hertel@sjsu.edu

Annabel Nguyen

annabel.nguyen@sjsu.edu

Mahati Varanasi

mahati.varanasi@sjsu.edu

Mariam Mortada

mariam.mortada@sjsu.edu

Principal Collaborators

Noelle L'Etoile

U.C. San Francisco 

Saul Kato

U.C. San Francisco 

Alumni

Venia Agenor

Undergraduate Researcher 
Continued on to Pharmacy School at University of Montreal

Sophia Akitt

Research Associate 

Nebat Ali

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to U.C. San Francisco Graduate School PhD Program

Sara Alladin

Master's Student
Continued to the University of Oregon Graduate School PhD Program

Kristine Andersen

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate
NSF REU RUMBA ProgramContinued on to Education and Community Development Specialist- Peace CorpsNSF REU RUMBA Program

Anisha Banda

Undergraduate Researcher

Anjana Baradwaj

Research Associate, Lab Manager 
Continued on to U.C. San Diego School of Medicine

Benjamin Barsi-Rhyne

Undergraduate Researcher 
Continued on to U.C. San Francisco Graduate School TETRAD PhD Program

Kelli Benedetti

Undergraduate Researcher, Master's Student
NIH MARC Program Continued on to U.C. San Francisco Graduate School TETRAD PhD Program

Veronica Bi

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate

Anirudh Bokka 

Undergraduate Researcher, Master's Student, Lab Manager
Continued on to the Biotech Industry

Fabiola Briseno

Undergraduate Researcher, Lab Manager
Continued on to Medical School

Cecilia Brown

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Stanford University

Decklin Byrd

Undergraduate Researcher

Eric Chang

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate
Continued on to Graduate School at Samuel Merritt University

Erik Clippard

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Master's of Molecular and Microbiology

Nathan Cook

Researcher
Continued on to Yale School of Medicine as a Postgraduate Research Associate 

Doris Coto-Villa

Undergraduate Researcher, Master's Student, Research Associate
Continued on to Biotech Industry

Sushmitha Divakar

Undergraduate Researcher 
Continued on to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Alex Duong

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to U.C. Irvine School of Medicine

Thuy-Linh Duong

Undergraduate Researcher

Chase Ebner

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate
Continued to Graduate School in Marine Biology at Marine Labs at Moss Landing  

Claudia Echeverria

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Biotech Industry 

Luz Elizarraraz

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Graduate school in Criminal Justice at California State University, Los Angeles 

Fatima Farah

Undergraduate Researcher, Master's Student, Lab Manager
Continued on to Biotech Industry

Amber Farooqi

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to University of San Francisco as a ME-MSN Graduate student

Kira Gill

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to University of San Francisco School of Law

Akshi Goyal

Master's Student
Continued on to French Lab San José State University 

Josiah Graves

Undergraduate Student, Research Associate

Jordan Griffin

Undergraduate Researcher

Asia Guevara

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to teach elementary school

Fadya Hamad

Undergraduate Researcher

Randall Harley

Undergraduate Researcher
NSF REU

Emma Holdrich

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Harvard University Graduate School PhD Program in BiostatisticsNSF REU RUMBA Program

Elena Hollemon

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to the New York University Graduate School

Maryam Idris

Undergraduate Researcher

Tamaraleah Jackson

Undergraduate Researcher 
NSF REU RUMBA Program

Madina Jahed

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to the University of Arizona Medical School 

Jessica Jarecki

Postdoctoral Researcher 
Continued on to the Biotech Industry

Vanessa Jimenez

Undergraduate Researcher, Master's Student, Lab Manager
Continued on to the Biotech Industry

Sabrina Kahn

Master's Student

Sukhdeep Kaur 

Undergraduate Researcher, Lab Manager

Zanett Kieu

Master's Student
Continued on to Biotech industry

Phil Knezevich

Undergraduate Researcher 
Continued on to Business Management 

Courtney Knitter

Undergraduate Researcher, Lab Associate
Continued on to University of California, Irvine Graduate School PhD Program

Yunus Koroglu

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Tech Industry 

Nghi Le

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to U.C. San Francisco School of Pharmacy

Joy Li

Master's Student
Continued on to U.C. San Francisco Graduate School TETRAD PhD Program

Alex Lincoln

Undergraduate Researcher 
NSF RUMBA Program

May Lu

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate

Tanya Ly

Undergraduate Researcher

Angela Madrigal

Master's Student
Continued on to Law School at Santa Clara University

Khristina Magallanes

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Bio-Tech Industry

Viviana Mas

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to University of Puerto Rico as a PharmD studentNSF REU

Bethel Mieso

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Medical Student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine  

Kristine Miller

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate 
Continued on to U.C. Davis School of Medicine 

Jordan Mitchell

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate, Lab Manager
Continued on to Medical School at Midwestern University

Natalyn Mock

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Nursing Student at Concordia University 

Jonathan Moreno

Undergraduate Researcher
NSF REU

Taha Muqtadir

Undergraduate Researcher

Cibelle Nassif

Master's Student, Graduate Researcher
Continued on to Bio-Tech Industry

Christina Nguyen

Undergraduate Researcher

Karena Nguyen

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on at Brown University for her B.S. in Biology

Shanté O'Hanlon

Undergraduate Researcher
NSF REU RUMBA ProgramNIH RISE Program Continued on to Medical Student at University of Rochester 

Anabel Ortiz

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate
NSF RUMBA Program Continued on to Medical Student at University of Washington School of Medicine  

Joori Park

Master's Student, Research Associate 
Continued to Yale Graduate School PhD Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences 

Minh Pham

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate
Continued to Pharmacy Student at USC School of Pharmacy  

Sierra Pollock

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to the Tech Industry

Pooja Prasad

Undergraduate Researcher

Jacqueline Pyle

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate
Continued on to Business management

Mekala Raman

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Mayo Graduate School PhD Program in Neuroscience 

Mohammed Salih

Undergraduate Researcher
NSF REU RUMBA Program Continued on to George Mason University  

Dianicha Santana

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to University of Illinois at Chicago PhD Student NSF REU RUMBA Program NIH MARC Program 

Raakhee Shankar

Master's Student
Continued on to University of Wisconsin for a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology

Idan Siman-Tov

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate
Continued onto a Master's in Bioinformatics at SJSU

Emily Soohoo

Graduate Researcher 
Continued on to a research position at Stanford University

Luis Perez Soto

Undergraduate Researcher
NSF REU RUMBA Program 

Angelina Tang

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to U.C. San Francisco Medical School

David Tatarakis

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued to U.C. Irvine Graduate School PhD Program in Neuroscience

Leah Teschner

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to the Biotech Industry

Anthony Thomas

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Biotech 

Alan Tran

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to U.C. San Francisco School of Pharmacy

Brian Tsujimoto

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Physician's Assistant school

Christopher Vargas

Undergraduate Researcher, Research Associate
2013 NIH RISE Program2011 NIH MARC Program2011 NSF RUMBA ProgramSJSU Teaching Credential ProgramContinued on to Teaching

Aruna Varshney

Master's Student, Research Associate, Lab Manager
Continued on to Bio-Tech Industry 

Katie Watters

Master's Student
Continued on to Tufts University for a PhD in Neuroscience

Chris Wellbrook

Undergraduate Researcher
Continued on to Wadsworth STEM Academy

William Wung

Research Associate
Continued on to Saint Luis University School of Medicine 

Johann Zaroli

Undergraduate Researcher, Master's Student
NSF REU RUMBA Program Continued on to Business and Sales