CURE Program

Major: Global Health

Minor: Business Finance

Joined: Fall 2018

Research Focus: Cross-assay analyses with HDSCA3.0 to identify prognostic rare cell markers for colorectal cancer. Developing a CAR T-cell identification assay for prostate cancer (PSCA/PSMA).

Scholarships and Fellowships: Trustee Scholarship

Involvements on Campus: Cathartic, LACI, Project RISHI, Trojan Knights, Doctors without Borders, Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab Scholars

Talk to me about: Hip hop and Bollywood dance

Major: Computer Science

Minor: Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

Joined: Fall 2018

Research Focus: Machine learning/artificial intelligence work with patient data to develop models to predict anything from CTC enumeration to optimal treatment for retinoblastoma patients

Scholarships and Fellowships: N/A

Involvements on Campus: N/A

Talk to me about: Music production and poker

Major: Quantitative Biology

Minor: Health Innovation

Joined: Spring 2019

Research Focus: Developing a Demographic-Collaborative Treatment Recommendation Algorithm for Patients with Multiple Myeloma.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Presidential Scholarship, Mastercard Global Scholarship, Trudi Berwin Student Support Award, USC Dornsife SURF, USC Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Gupta Family Fellowship

Involvements on Campus: USC Healthcare Technology and Analytics, USC WorldMed, Community Health Connection

Talk to me about: Basketball and music

Major: Human Biology

Minor: N/A

Joined: Fall 2019

Research Focus: Improved classification of early stage non-small cell lung cancers through addition of HD-SCA work flow

Scholarships and Fellowships: University Scholarship

Involvements on Campus: Troy Philippines, Trojan Steel

Talk to me about: Cool jewelry

Major: Neuroscience

Minor: Jazz Studies

Joined: Fall 2019

Research Focus: Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Dornsife SOAR

Involvements on Campus: Southern California Healthcare Outreach, USC Project RISHI, Music Inspiring Community

Talk to me about: Jazz and climbing

Major: Biomedical Engineering

Minor: N/A

Joined: Spring 2020

Research Focus: Predictive Modeling of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy Responses

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC PURF, Trudi Berwin Scholarship, APAA Scholarship, SCion Scholarship, Cancer for College Scholarship

Involvements on Campus: ASBME, Colleges Against Cancer, Cathartic Health

Talk to me about: Hiking and manga

Major: Quantitative Biology

Minor: N/A

Joined: Spring 2020

Research Focus: Identification of biomarkers for Head/Neck cancer and immunotherapy response using the HD-SCA 3.0 workflow.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Dornsife SOAR

Involvements on Campus: USC Triathlon

Talk to me about: Computers and Camping

Major: Human Biology

Minor: Human Disease

Joined: Fall 2020

Research Focus: UAMS

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Dornsife SURF

Involvements on Campus: Colleges Against Cancer, LSA, JEP, Reader’s Plus, Interaxon, Kinder to College

Talk to me about: Books, coffee, and photography

Major: Human Biology

Minor: Global Health

Joined: Fall 2021

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Scholarships and Fellowships: Trustee Scholarship

Involvements on Campus: QuASA, Joint Educational Project

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Major: Biochemistry

Minor: Public Health, East Asian Languages and Culture

Joined: Fall 2021

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Scholarships and Fellowships: Presidential Scholarship

Involvements on Campus: Science Outreach, AMWA

Talk to me about: Dramas and table tennis

Major: Quantitative Biology

Minor: Healthcare Studies

Joined: Fall 2021

Research Focus: Developing ML models for the prediction of metastatic relapse in UTUC patients via rare cell populations identified with the HDSCA 3.0 workflow.

Scholarships and Fellowships: Presidential Scholarship

Involvements on Campus: USC MEDesign, Science Outreach

Talk to me about: NBA basketball and Phoebe Bridgers

Major: Human Biology

Minor: Spanish

Joined: Spring 2019

Research Focus: NBDs Rare Cell Classification/Enumeration, HDSCA3.0 Longitudinal Sampling Data Analysis

Scholarships and Fellowships: Presidential Scholarship

Involvements on Campus: LAC + USC Department of Emergency Medicine Volunteer, Spanglish Tutoring, Troy Camp, USC American Medical Women’s Association, Foreign Service Society

Talk to me about: Snowboarding and sailing

Major: Human Biology & Economics

Minor: Mathematical Finance

Joined: Spring 2019

Research Focus: Characterization of Small Cell Lung Cancer & Tracking/Monitoring CAR-T cells in HER2+ Breast Cancer

Scholarships and Fellowships: Trustee Scholarship, USC Dornsife SOAR, USC Dornsife SURF

Involvements on Campus: Project RISHI, KDSAP, EMSC, Imagining America, SCHO

Talk to me about: Investing options

Major: Biochemistry

Minor: Applied Analytics

Joined: Fall 2019

Research Focus: Characterization of cfDNA fragmentation profiles in HR+/HER2+ breast cancer patients to improve CNA detection.

Scholarships and Fellowships: Presidential Scholarship, USC Dornsife SOAR, USC Dornsife SURF

Involvements on Campus: USC TAO, Music Inspiring Community, Brain Exercise Initiative

Talk to me about: Mahjong and Taiwanese food

Major: Biological Sciences

Minor: Disruptive Innovation

Joined: Fall 2019

Research Focus: Transcriptomic Subtyping of Multiple Myeloma.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Dornsife SURF, USC Dornsife SOAR Gillman Fellowship

Involvements on Campus: Trojan Knights, Troy Camp, HCTA

Talk to me about: banana bread

Major: Quantitative Biology & Computer Science

Minor: N/A

Joined: Fall 2019

Research Focus: Developing a ML model for prostate cancer patients based on CTC predicting patient lifespan

Scholarships and Fellowships: N/A

Involvements on Campus: Association of Innovative Marketing and Consulting, Photo Club, MEDLife, Project Rishi

Talk to me about: Stocks and options, photography, and electric skateboards

Major: Computational Neuroscience

Minor: Linguistics

Joined: Spring 2020

Research Focus: Investigating rare cells in bladder cancer samples to identify prognostic markers of the disease. Developing proteomic biomarkers for phenotypic characterization of CRCs.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Dornsife SURF, USC Dornsife SOAR

Involvements on Campus: USC Mobile Clinic, USC Medesign, Intramural Soccer

Talk to me about: English Premier League!

Major: Human Biology

Minor: Health Care Studies

Joined: Spring 2020

Research Focus: Utilize the HDSCA 3.0 Normal Blood Donor reports to understand the underlying elements of immunity and disease in non-cancerous cohorts.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Dornsife SOAR

Involvements on Campus: Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, Trojan Tutoring, Colleges Against Cancer, Trojan Health Volunteers, Human Biology Association

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Major: Human Biology

Minor: Health Innovation

Joined: Fall 2020

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Involvements on Campus: Peaks and Professors, Science Outreach, Trojan Health Volunteers, Remedy Through Music

Talk to me about: Sustainable fashion, hiking, and ATLA

Major: Health and Human Sciences

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Joined: Fall 2021

Research Focus: The goal of this project is to explore the types of circulating rare events in patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) and identify possible biomarkers relating to pulmonary or cardiovascular injury. We will run the HSDSCA3.0 workflow on peripheral blood samples from participants who had severe COVID-19, were hospitalized for COVID-19, or are currently being evaluated for PACS. These PACS samples will be compared and analyzed against samples from participants with no known pathology, as well as patients with alternative health conditions (ie. Cancer). This project will lead to additional studies to identify a PACS biomarker to assist in diagnosis and/or differentiation, drug selection, and clinical monitoring.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Dornsife SOAR, Ronald Stephen Muckenthaler Scholarship, Music Scholarship Fund

Involvements on Campus: piano performances

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Major: Neuroscience

Minor: Healthcare Studies

Joined: Spring 2019

Research Focus: Single Cell Analysis of Treatment Responses and Tumor Evolution in Hormone Receptor-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer patients

Scholarships and Fellowships: Presidential Scholarship, USC PURF, USC Dornsife SOAR, USC Dornsife SURF

Involvements on Campus: Community Health Connection, Interaxon, Residential Community Council, Project RISHI, Flying Samaritans

Talk to me about: LA restaurants

Major: Quantitative Biology

Minor: N/A

Joined: Spring 2019

Research Focus: Immune Profiling: utilizing imaging mass cytometry (IMC) to characterize immune cells with up to 30 markers

Scholarships and Fellowships: N/A

Involvements on Campus: Community Health Involvement Project, USC Student Government, USC Food Recovery Network

Talk to me about: The best sad songs

Major: Biochemistry

Minor: Computer Programming

Joined: Spring 2020

Research Focus: Early detection of lung cancer using HD-SCA

Scholarships and Fellowships: Presidential Scholarship, USC Dornsife SURF

Involvements on Campus: Chaotic 3 Hip Hop, NSQK Dance

Talk to me about: Anything boba related

Major: Human Biology

Minor: Healthcare Studies & Piano Performance

Joined: Spring 2020

Research Focus: Tracking mutations for patients undergoing treatment with stage 3 and 4 non small cell lung cancer

Scholarships and Fellowships: Presidential Scholarship, USC Dornsife SOAR

Involvements on Campus: Science Outreach, Habitats of Humanity

Talk to me about: Traveling and dogs

Major: Quantitative Biology

Minor: Applied Analytics

Joined: Spring 2020

Research Focus: Early detection of NSCLC using HDSCA 3.0 single-cell data.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Dornsife SOAR

Involvements on Campus: Project RISHI, Science Outreach, Supplemental Instruction

Talk to me about: Soccer and why it is the superior sport

Major: Human Biology

Minor: Healthcare Studies

Joined: Fall 2020

Research Focus: Using liquid biopsy to identify and compare possible biomarkers in hepatic portal vein and peripheral blood of patients for earlier pancreatic cancer detection and characterization of disease progression

Scholarships and Fellowships: Presidential Scholarship, USC URAP, , USC Dornsife Continuing Students Scholarship, USC Dornsife SOAR

Involvements on Campus: Peer Health Exchange, Community Health Involvement Project, The Coastlander

Talk to me about: Cheese and snowboarding

Major: Quantitative Biology

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Joined: Spring 2021

Research Focus: High Resolution Single Cell Proteomic Analysis Pipeline for Characterization of Multiple Myeloma Progression.

Scholarships and Fellowships: Trudi Berwin Fellowship

Involvements on Campus: Make-A-Wish USC, Xpressions dance company, Genomics and Geobiology Undergraduate Research Experience, Kappa Alpha Theta

Talk to me about: The best restaurants around LA

Major: Computer Science

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Joined: Summer 2021

Research Focus: Modeling performance status using movement and physical activity data to help oncologists predict patient responses to rigorous therapies before enrolling them.

Scholarships and Fellowships: USC Provost

Involvements on Campus: N/A

Talk to me about: Freediving, volleyball, and good food

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