During the first year of study, our students complete several courses along with participating in journal club and laboratory rotations. They begin their full-time dissertation research at the beginning of their second year.
First-Year Students
![Andrea Lang Goldgewicht](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281941/main_image/lang-goldgewicht-andrea-230725-04.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BA, University of Pennsylvania
![Benjamin Gordon](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/283756/main_image/gordon-benjamin-230905-03_rt_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, McGill University
![Jacob Gutierrez](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281926/main_image/gutierrez-jacob-230725-03.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BA, Lewis & Clark College / MS; Oregon Health Sciences University, MS
![Gary Guzman](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281931/main_image/guzman-gary-230725-02.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, University of Texas, Dallas
![Monika Komza](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281936/main_image/komza-monika-230725-02.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, Fordham University / MS, Icahn School of Medicine, MS
![Joshua Lau](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281946/main_image/lau-joshua-230725-01.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, UC San Diego
![Sophia Park](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281956/main_image/park-sophia-230725-06.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, University of Virginia
![Kate Ryan](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281961/main_image/ryan-kate-230725-05.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, Syracuse University
![Arturo Salazar](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281966/main_image/salazar-arturo-230725-03.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, UC Irvine
![Ecenur Turkay](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281971/main_image/turkay-ecenur-230725-06.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, Boğaziçi University
![Yixuan Zhao](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/281976/main_image/zhao-yixuan-230725-06.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, Cornell University
Second-Year Students
![Monica Acosta](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/258011/main_image/acosta-monica-220914-008_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, UC San Diego
Mentor: Gretchen Diehl
![Tejiri Agbamu](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/251991/main_image/agbamu-tejiri-230914-03_rt.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, University of Minnesota
Mentor: Jian Carrot-Zhang; Nikolaus Schultz
![Subha Baniya](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/251996/main_image/baniya-subha-220726-005_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
[email protected]
BA, Wellesley College
Mentor: David A. Scheinberg
![Elizabeth Benitez](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/258031/main_image/benitez-elizabeth-220830-005_rt_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, UC Los Angeles
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh
![Emmanuel M. Bruno](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252001/main_image/bruno-emmanuel-220726-002_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, MS, Università degli studi di Milano
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran
![Nima Hooshdaran](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252006/main_image/hooshdaran-nima-220726-002_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, UC Los Angeles
Mentor: Alexander Rudensky
![Jiachen Hu](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252016/main_image/hu-jiachen-220726-004_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Tsinghua University
Mentor: Xuejun Jiang
![Vivian Kuan](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252011/main_image/kuan-vivian-li-siew-220726-003_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of Minnesota
Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri
![Mariah Lee](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252021/main_image/lee-mariah-220726-003_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Newberry College
Mentor: Joseph Sun
![Tiffany Merlinsky](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/258046/main_image/merlinsky-tiffany-220914-07_1200x800.jpg)
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BA, CUNY Hunter College
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana
![Samuel Molina](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252026/main_image/molina-samuel-220726-004_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Texas State University
Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty
![Achuth Nair](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252031/main_image/nair-achuth-220726-004_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, Columbia University
Mentor: Justin Perry
![Lila Peters](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252036/main_image/peters-lila-220726-002_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of Michigan
Mentor: Christine Mayr
![Stephanie A. Pierre](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/258051/main_image/pierre-stephanie-220914-012_1200x800.jpg)
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BS, University of Georgia
Mentor: Andrea Schietinger
![Madison Rex](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/258056/main_image/rex-madison-220914-002_1200x800.jpg)
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BS, University of Texas Austin
Mentor: Agnel Sfeir
![James A. Rodrigues](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252041/main_image/rodrigues-james-220726-002_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, MA, Rutgers University
Mentor: Yu Chen; David B. Solit
![Clark Thomson](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252046/main_image/thomson-clark-220726-002_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, MS, McGill University
Mentor: Adrienne A. Boire
![Isabelle C. Top](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252051/main_image/top-isabelle-220726-005_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Yale University
Mentor: Mary Baylies
![Lucia Wang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252061/main_image/wang-lucia-230808-06_rt_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BSc, MSc, McGill University
Mentor: Dirk Remus
![Claire Wang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252056/main_image/wang-claire-240402-05_rtc-part-2_800x1200.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Cornell University
Mentor: Lorenz Studer
![Colin Zenge](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252066/main_image/zenge-colin-220726-005_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Cornell University
Mentor: Alban Ordureau
![Siqi (Linsey) Zhang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/252071/main_image/zhang-siqi_website_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, Swarthmore College
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran
Third-Year Students
![Peter Chhoy](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230029/main_image/peter-chhoy_1200x800.png?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, University of Notre Dame; MS, Duke University
Mentor: Xuejun Jiang
![Isabella Del Priore](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230119/main_image/del-priore-isabella_210728_04-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Tufts University
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe
![Yassmin Elbanna](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230032/main_image/elbanna-yassmin_210728_02-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, University of Chicago
Mentor: Morgan Huse
![Rebecca Gelfer](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230035/main_image/gelfer-rebecca_210819_02-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, University of Pennsylvania; MS, University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Ross L. Levine
![Yuzuka A. Kanno](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230038/main_image/kanno-yuzuka_210728_07-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BPharm, Tokyo University of Science
Mentor: Alexander Gitlin
![Won Jun Kim](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230041/main_image/kim-won-jun_210831_014-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, California Institute of Technology
Mentor: Omar Abdel-Wahab
![Klavdija Krause](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230026/main_image/bastl-klavdija_210728_02-1200x800_0.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BSc, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems; MSc, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela
![Kathleen Ann Luckett](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230089/main_image/luckett-kathleen_210830_06-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Ithaca College
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh
![Lisa McGary](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/232780/main_image/mcgary-lisa_210830_08-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, UC Berkeley
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana
![Ashley Nichols](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230101/main_image/nichols-ashely_210728_05-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Chapman University
Mentor: John Maciejowski
![Jesus Romero-Pichardo](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230104/main_image/romero-pichardo-jesus-220927-002_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Mentor: Justin Perry
![Amin Sabet](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/233692/main_image/sabet-armin-12x8.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, Macalester College
Mentor: Charles M. Rudin
![Manisha Srinivas Raghavan](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230107/main_image/raghavan-manisha_210728_06-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BTech, Vellore Institute of Technology; MS, Tufts University
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh
![Yung Yu Wong](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230110/main_image/wong-yung-yu_210728_06-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, UC Los Angeles
Mentor: Morgan Huse
![Abigail Xie](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230113/main_image/xie-abigail_210819_02-1200x800.jpg)
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BS, Duke University
Mentor: Lydia Finley
![Melissa Yao](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/230116/main_image/yao-melissa_210728_08-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, SUNY Stony Brook; MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mentor: Andrea Ventura
Fourth-Year Students
![Ilinca Aricescu](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/208570/main_image/aricescu-ilinca_211111_07-rt-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BSc, University of Cambridge
Mentor: Rona Yaeger
![Yan-Ting Chen](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/207760/main_image/chen-yan-ting_200925_06_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, National Chiao Tung University; MS, National Taiwan University
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana
![Juliana I. Delgado](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/206113/main_image/delgado-juliana_210622_08-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, American University
Mentor: Andrew Koff
![Zaza Gelashvili](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/206116/main_image/gelashvili_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, Clark University; MS, Clark University
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer
![Ziqi Jiao](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/206128/main_image/jiao_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, University of Chicago
Mentor: Andrea Ventura
![Jenna Snyder](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/206122/main_image/snyder-jenna_210806_07-1200x800_2.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Pennsylvania State University
Mentor: Adrienne A. Boire
![Anran Tang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/206125/main_image/tang_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, Pomona College; MS, Harvard University
Mentor: Thomas Norman
Fifth-Year Students
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179821/3x2/benitez-de-la-vega-marimar_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Mentor: Andrew Koff
![Inés Fernández Maestre](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179824/main_image/facetune_05-08-2020-16-18-17-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; MS, Fachhochschule Technikum Wien
Mentor: Ross L. Levine
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179827/3x2/islam-mohammed_190724_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, Skidmore College
Mentor: Thomas S. Vierbuchen
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179830/3x2/kennedy-margaret_190724_03_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, The College of New Jersey
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179833/3x2/kim-hyunu_19072405_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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AB, Washington University in St. Louis
Mentor: Joseph Sun
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179836/3x2/liu-dingyu_190724_02_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179839/3x2/mcnamara-thomas_190724_05_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Trinity College
Mentor: Andrew M. Intlekofer
![Brianna Naizir](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179842/main_image/gsk_210715_124_rt_1200x800.jpg?h=6f3285a6)
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BS, The City College of New York
Mentor: Andrea Schietinger
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179848/3x2/perlee-sarah_190724_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, The University of Vermont
Mentor: Richard White
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179851/3x2/robinson-troy_190724_02_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mentor: Ross L. Levine
![GSK Student Ana Sanchez](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179854/3x2/sanchez-ana_190724_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Mentor: Stewart Shuman
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179860/3x2/van-dongen-david_190726_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, Drew University
Mentor: Stephen B. Long
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179863/3x2/wakiro-isaac_190724_02_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, College of St. Scholastica
Mentor: Michael G. Kharas
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179866/3x2/xu-nan_190724_02_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mentor: Lorenz Studer
![GSK Student](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179869/3x2/zhang-haochen_190724_03_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, BA, The University of Chicago
Mentor: Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue
![Zhi Zheng](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179872/3x2/zheng-zhi_190724_02_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
[email protected]
BS, Southern University of Science and Technology
Mentor: Scott Keeney
Sixth-Year Plus Students
![Mariano Aufiero](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/142903/main_image/aufiero-mariano-240226-002_rtr.jpg)
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BS, University of Texas Austin
Mentor: Tobias M. Hohl
![Chen Yanyang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/161089/main_image/chen-yanyang-220404-1200x800.jpeg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, Columbia University; BS, City University of Hong Kong
Mentor: John Maciejowski
![Celeste Dang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/161095/3x2/dang-celeste_180725_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor: Joseph Sun
![Miguel Francisco M. De Jesus](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/125491/main_image/de-jesus-miguel_210428_08.jpg?h=242cd5c8)
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BS, University of the Philippines
Mentor: Morgan Huse
![Shengyu (Sherry) Gao](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/161098/main_image/gao-shengyu_210818_02-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mentor: Ming Li
![Eleanor M. Johns](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/161101/3x2/johns-eleanor_05_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BA, University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Richard White
![Ella M.M. Nguyen](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/161104/3x2/melnik-ella_190911_05_1200x800-1.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Pacific Union College
Mentor: Christopher D. Lima
![Alexander Settle](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/161113/3x2/settle-alexander_180725_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, Cornell University
Mentor: Morgan Huse
![Zhouyang Shen](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/142924/3x2/shen-zhouyang_170726_02_3x2.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, UC Los Angeles
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer
![Ryan Smolkin](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/125512/main_image/smolkin_190222_02-rt-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of California, Los Angeles
Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri
![Michael Waarts](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/161119/3x2/warrts-michael_180725_05_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of Chicago
Mentor: Ross L. Levine
![Jielin Yan](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/161122/3x2/yan-jielin_180725_07_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
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BS, University of Chicago
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu