Mentors

3rd Year Biology Major

Research Interests: Alzheimer’s therapies and drug trials, cancer treatments, and stem cell technologies

Experience: Worked in Ionescu Lab surrounded around skeletal stem cell biology specifically focused in how stem cells can help repair growth plate injuries. Also did Research Immerse as a mentee last year and I worked to create a lit review on Alzheimer’s treatments and which were most effective to date.

3rd Year Cell and Molecular Biology Major 

Research Interests: Cancer biology, immunology, Alzheimer's biomarkers, preventative medicine and risk factors

Experience: Application of photodynamic therapy on pancreatic cancer research in the Hasan Lab at MGH, Staphylococcus research at American College of Thessaloniki, field research on Korean medicine at Kyung Hee University, Alzheimer’s clinical Trials co-op at Brigham and Women's Hospital 

3rd Year Chemistry, Behavioral Neuroscience

Research Interests: My research interests span a few different related disciplines and primarily I would say they are all through a lens of a chemistry or biophysics focus. Specifically, I'm interested in proteomics, photochemistry, nanomedicine, gene based and protein based drug development (ex. targeted protein degradation), cancer, and neurobiology.

Experience: In the past I was previously a Sigma Xi Research Immerse Member and it was such a great experience that I now want to pay it forward as a mentor! Research Immerse was my total introduction into the world of research and since then I've utilized all of the soft and hard skills I've learned across a variety of endeavors. One research related endeavor is my first co-op at Blueprint Medicines. At Blueprint, I am in the Chemistry Department working on proteomics, which essentially is the quantification and study of all the proteins in a cell or tissue using methods of mass spectrometry, HPLC, extensive data analysis, and a standardized sample prep! The Research Immersion Program introduced me into the formal professional world of research and science in general, and the most helpful skill I learned was how to engage with the literature and actually LEARN in ways outside of class, as well as how to appropriately present findings and interact with scientists professionally! I was very intimidated by entering research, and I say that to say that there are many avenues to research and that taking the first step to do anything new is often the hardest! If you want it, there is a place for you! Currently, I'm looking to get into a research lab for the Spring 2026 semester after my first co-op!

4th Year Biochemistry Major

Research Interests: Dermatology, immunology, how biomarkers revealing the pathogenesis of dermatological diseases can be obtained minimally invasiely. 

Experience: Co-ops at Merk and Pfizer, Godoy-Carter Lab 

4th Year Biomedical Physics Major

Research Interests: Cancer research immunology biophysics studies physiology sports medicine 

Experience: Hasan lab at HMS/MGH, Spring lab at northeastern 

2nd Year Biochemistry

Research Interests: Biotech pharma

Experience: Brain Development Lab, NuVance Health Shadowing, Axolotl Lab, Cancer Postbiotics Presentation Sigma Xi

4th Year Biomedical Physics Major

Research Interests: Physical genetics, biotechnology, network analysis 

Experience: Di Pierro Lab - studying syntenic relationshisp across species using network analysis in Python, Co-op at GSK in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Co-op at BioSensics in Clinical Trial Operations

2nd Year Chemistry Major

Research Interests: I am interested in medicinal chemistry and pharmaceuticals

Experience: In highschool I interned at the National Cancer Institute and did work with peptide based materials for drug delivery. Now I do research in the Agar lab on campus characterizes post-translational modifications of proteins and changes in protein, peptide, and lipid expression that occur during ALS.

4th Year Electrical and Computer Engineering Major

Research Interests: neurodegenerative diseases, electromyography, signal processing, machine learning for speech and non-verbal communication analysis

Experience: Research Assistant @ Neuro-Developmental Dynamics Lab

Firmware Engineering Co-op @ Amazon Robotics

Research Assistant @ Movement Neuroscience Lab

Electrical Engineering Co-op @ Raytheon

Health Equity and Social Justice Research Institute Intern @ Healthy Lifespan Lab

Engineering Research Intern @ Kostas Research Institute

3rd Year Linguistics and Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Major

Research Interests: Neurobiology of language, communication disorders, bilingual language acquisition 

Experience: I’ve been a research assistant at the QLAB on campus, focusing on language acquisition and the brain. I’ve been involved in a study with children with autism and how they learn language through statistical learning patterns, and am now expanding my research focus to studying the speech production system and language acquisition in adults .

4th Year Behavioral Neuroscience Major

Research Interests: Dopamine and reward/motivation, sensory perception, neuropharmacology, in vivo electrophysiology

Experience: Murthy Lab at Harvard University- systems neuroscience lab researching dopamine activity in relation to sensory-guided motivated behaviors in mice

3rd Year Biochemistry Major

Research Interests: The circadian rhythm, and how drug therapies can be tailored to match the circadian rhythm for ideal drug efficacy. I think that Time-based biological phenomena are really fascinating and worth exploring more to see how they can improve treatments.

Experience: Previously, I spent some time in the Chung Lab studying neuroregeneration and how upregulation of certain regeneration associated genes (RAGs) could regenerate parts of the central nervous system in C. elegans. I'm currently a co-op at Tessel, a biotech startup, working on their target discovery projects for muco-obstructive lung disease.

2nd Year Biochemistry Major

Research Interests: I am interested in the intersection between treating psychiatric disorders and neuroscience research. I’m also interested in stem cell research for neurodegenerative diseases.   

Experience: I currently am working at the Loring Lab on campus which focuses on researching alpha 7 nicotinic receptors. 

3rd Year Biology Major

Research Interests: Zoonotic pathogens, bacteriology, public health, veterinary science

Experience: I have conducted research in the Takacs Lab of Spirochete and Vector Biology here at Northeastern University, focusing on Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) and Leptospira biflexa (model for Leptospirosis). My work has involved creating mutation constructs, developing new lab protocols, and applying molecular biology techniques such as plasmid construction, transformations, PCR, and microscopy to better understand the underlying mechanisms behind these bacteria. I was awarded the AJC Merit Research Coop Scholarship to support this work and presented my findings at Northeastern’s 2025 RISE research expo. Beyond the lab, I have gained veterinary and public health experience through internships and volunteer roles at the Humane Society of Greater Nashua and the Public Health Museum’s Outbreak! program. These combined experiences reflect my interest in zoonotic pathogens, public health, and veterinary science.

3rd Year Bioengineering/Biochemistry Major

Research Interests: I am working on mechanically analyzing collagen fibrils through individually pulling them in controlled tensile tests. Application of this work includes investigating treatment/prevention of ocular diseases such as glaucoma which is linked with a decrease in scleral stiffness. I am also interested in cancer biology as well as investigating vascular mechanics.

Experience: I have been working in the Ruberti Lab (EMERL) for the past 2 years. Within this lab, I have worked on an experiment in which we isolated single collagen fibrils and pulled them until failure to analyze their stress-strain profile. For my first Co-Op, I worked at Parabilis Medicines where I ran biological assays to screen various in-house developed peptides to analyze their cell based activity in inhibiting growth of cancerous cells.  

3rd Year Behavioral Neuroscience Major, minor in Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology/Women's Health, Neurodegenerative Diseases (ALS), Estrogenic/PFAS-related Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis Disruption

Experience: Research under Dr. Lykourinou (RAISE lab), engineering remediation systems to degrade groundwater contaminants; clinical research on role of exercise in cognitive function at Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health in Hillman-Kramer Lab; co-op at Pépin Lab at MGH/HMS, aiding in research on anti-Müllerian hormone as non-steroidal contraceptive.