People

Lab Group Alumni

Alumni Degree, Year, Academic Awards at SCU Current Position/Next Step After SCU

Claire Alford B.S. Public Health, 2025, Udall Scholar MPH at Dartmouth College

Mikayla Dupin B.S. Biochemistry & Neuroscience, 2025                                        

Samira Billow B.S. Biology, 2025 Newborn hearing technician at Kaiser Permanente

Karl Schumacher B.S. Bioengineering, 2024, De Novo Scholar Graduate student in engineering at SCU

Joseph Pham B.S. Computer Engineering, 2023, De Novo Scholar Software Engineer at Broadcom

Erica Svendahl B.S. Chemistry & Environmental Science, Research Scientist at Calorify

Beckman Scholar

Giulia Mantovani B.S. Biochemistry, 2023 Clinical Researcher at Stanford Univ.

Jonathan Staley B.S. Biochemistry, 2023 DDS candidate at Univ. of the Pacific

Alex Tochihuitl B.S. Neuroscience, 2022, LEAD Scholar Biotech

Brian Hong B.S. Biochemistry, 2022, DeNardo Scholar T.B.D.

Angela Zapata, Ph.D. Analytical Chemist

Lilah Foster B.S. Environmental Sciences/Fine Art, 2021, T.B.D.

Dean's Excellence Scholar

Kaitlyn Leung B.S. Biology & Child Studies, 2021 Nursing school at Johns Hopkins Univ.

Kira Fahy B.S. Biochemistry & Spanish, 2020, Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern Univ.

Jean Dreyfus Research Scholar

Caleb Ling B.S. Biochemistry & Philosophy, 2020 Biotech

Jackie Rogers B.S. Environmental Sciences, 2020 Ph.D. candidate at Washington Univ. 

St. Louis

Sangeetha Damiano Foothill College student in chemisry T.B.D.

Karl Baumgartner B.S. Bioengineering, 2019, Hayes Scholar Medical school at Brown Univ.

Madeline Eiken B.S. Bioengineering, 2019, Clare Boothe Luce Scholar & Biotech, then Ph.D. at Univ. of Michigan

St. Clare Medal

Evangelia Bouzos B.S. Bioengineering, 2018, M.S. Engineering Research Associate at Cepheid 

Management, 2020 Clare Boothe Luce & 

Khueler Scholar

Mari Williams Lincoln High School, 2018, volunteer Undergraduate at UCLA

Karen Mac B.S. Public Health, 2018, Johnson Scholar Business Development at Acumen

Zoe Amaris B.S. Biochemistry, 2017, DeNardo Senior Scholar Genentech    

Daniel Freitas B.S. Bioengineering, 2017, M.S. Electrical Engineering, Microfluidics Engineer at 10X Genomics

2019 Alza & Roelandt's Scholar

Matthew Findlay B.S. Bioengineering, 2017, M.S. Computer Science & Software Engineer at Ciena

Engineering, 2019 Xilinx & Roelandt's Scholar

Mai-Loan Nguyen B.S. Biochemistry & Public Health & Spanish, 2017 M.P.H., Oregon Health & Science Univ.

Sarah Anderson B.S. Chemistry, 2016, Clare Boothe Luce Scholar Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern Univ. 

Erik Berggren B.S. Chemistry, 2016 Biotech

Lauren Schmitt B.S. Biochemistry & Spanish, 2016, Bastiani Award Researcher at Univ. of Colorado, Anschutz 

Kyle Gerner B.S. Chemistry, 2015 Pilot plant supervisor at Impossible Foods

Jasmine Marckwordt B.S. Chemistry, 2015 Ph.D. candidate at UCSB

Kristian Borofka B.S. Biochemistry, 2014, Hayes Fellow D.O. student at Touro Univeristy 

Erick Castellanos B.S. Biochemistry, 2013, ALZA Scholar Genentech, then M.D. from UCLA.

Grace Park B.S. Biochemistry, 2013 Graduate school

Rachel Gate B.S. Biochemistry, 2012 Ph.D., Univ. of California San Francisco

Andrew Martinolich B.S. Chemistry, 2012 Ph.D. Colorado State Univ., Resnick

Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech 

Meagan Nakamoto B.S. Biochemistry, 2012 Clare Boothe Luce, Roelandt's Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado Boulder   

Scholar, & NASA grant (CSGUROP)

Alyssa Lampe B.S. Biochemistry, 2011, Roelandt's Scholar M.D. (2016), Resident Physician at Univ. of Southern California