fellowships
Tony Kuo, Wertheim Fellow
Tony Kuo spent the summer mentoring Shivangi Saxena, a high school Kenan Fellow, providing hands-on research experience in the lab of Patrick Griffin, Ph.D., the institute's scientific director.
Donor Portrait
Alan and Susan Fuirst
Susan Fuirst knew her paternal grandmother had died of breast cancer. Her own mother also had breast cancer. Then, in 1986, she received the news herself. The Fuirsts felt much more needed to be done to advance cancer research.
Alumni
Rebecca Goydel, Ph.D.
An alumna of the Skaggs Graduate School in Jupiter, FL, Goydel developed cancer-targeting antibodies with her UF Scripps mentor and is now helping bring AI to immunology-based therapeutics development as team leader at a Boston-based biotechnology company.
ALUMNI
Matthew Costales, Ph.D.
Costales developed tools and potential therapies to target disease-causing RNA for his dissertation. He's now a scientist at an RNA therapeutics firm.
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