Peri Wivell
Undergraduate Student at GW, Class of 2024
Peri graduated from GW with a B.S. in Biology. She was a 2022 GW-SPARC scholar (Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer), a 2023-2024 Enosinian Scholar, and in the Biology Honors Program. Peri will pursue her Ph.D. studies at Yale University.
Tanya North
Research Associate, 2022-2024
Andrew Pletcher
Research Assistant
Andrew graduated from GW, majoring in Biology with a concentration in Cellular and Molecular Biology. He was a Luther Rice Undergraduate Fellow and a pre-medicine student.
Ashutosh Yende
Postdoctoral Scientist
Ashutosh received his Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, India. He is now a postdoctoral scientist at Johns Hopkins.
Alexandra Helfand
Undergraduate Student at GW, Class of 2022
Alexandara will attend medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Tejashree Joglekar
Postdoctoral Scientist
Tejashree received her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has previously worked at Champions Oncology, Inc. as a scientific project leader. She is currently a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Pittsburgh.
Natalie Orsi
Master's Student at GW, Class of 2020
Natalie received her bachelor’s degree from Augustana College. She then worked at Charles River as a research associate. She was a master's student in the Bioinformatics and Molecular Biochemistry program. Natalie was awarded the Best Presenter Prize in Biochemistry at her Master Student Symposium. She is currently a Senior Associate Biochemist at GlaxoSmithKline.
Hunain Khawaja
Laboratory Technician
Hunain received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and his Master's degree from GW. He has previously conducted research at Children’s National Medical Center and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is currently a graduate student in the Ph.D. program at the University of Arizona.
Ben McSweeney
Medical Student at GW, Class of 2023
Ben is a W.T. Gill Fellow and a medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He received his bachelor's degree from the George Washington University, and has conducted research at GW and at the Centre for Innovative Cancer Research in Ottawa, Canada.
Patricia Cerri-Droz
Undergraduate Student at GW, Class of 2021
Patricia majored in Biology while at GW. She is now a medical student at Stony Brook University.