Novartis Gene Therapies, San Diego, California
Intern, Analytical Development - Chemistry (June-Sept 2021)
Expert, Analytical Development - Chemistry (July 2022-present)
University of Notre Dame (BS cum laude, Chemistry [with departmental honors] and Chinese, 2016)
Project: Using yeast as a biosensor for mutagenicity
Mentor: Prof. Holly Goodson (2013-16)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship)
Project: Isolation of endogenous ligands of the HIF2α PAS-B domain
Mentor: Prof. John MacMillan (Summer 2014)
Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR (Singapore Institute Pre-Graduate Fellow)
Project: Immortalizing human skeletal muscle stem cells
Mentor: Dr. Shyh-Chang Ng (Jan-Aug 2015)
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD, Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, June 2022)
Project: Post-translational modification enzymes in cell division
Mentor: Prof. Jorge Torres (2016-2022)
Project: Actin and actin-related proteins in Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis
Mentor: Prof. Margot Quinlan (2016-2022)
2014 UT Southwestern Medical Center Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2015 A*STAR Singapore Institute Pre-Graduate Award
2015 (ND) Glynn Family Honors Program Summer Undergraduate Research Grant
2015 (ND) Career Center Internship Grant
2015 (ND) Multicultural Students Programs and Services Research Grant
2016 (ND) Best Thesis (Science), Glynn Family Honors Program
2016-19 (UCLA) Edwin W. Pauley Fellowship
2017-19 NIH T32 Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Program
2017-22 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2019 ASBMB Graduate Student Travel Award
2019 Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California 南加州中華科工學會 scholarship
2019 ASCB Graduate Student Travel Award
2020 (UCLA) Ralph and Charlene Bauer Award
2020-21 (UCLA) Whitcome Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Molecular Biology
2021 (Novartis) Selected (from 15 interns) to present to the Novartis Gene Therapy San Diego site
2022 (UCLA) Roberts A. Smith Dissertation Award