Name: Naima Akter
Lab at MSK: Scott Keeney lab, Molecular Biology Program
Undergraduate Institution: Hamilton College
Interest: MD track
Name: Carol E. Alata
Lab at MSK: Lorenz Studer lab, Developmental Biology Program
Undergraduate Institution: University of Southern California
Interest: MD PhD track
Position after Bridge: Medical scribble at Weill Cornell Medicine
Name: Sangita Chakraborty
Lab at MSK: Lydia Finley lab, Cell Biology Program
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Undergraduate Institution: Hunter College
Interest: MD PhD track
Name: Erick Gonzalez
Lab at MSK: Andrew Intlekofer lab, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Undergraduate Institution: California State University at Northridge
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at Columbia University, VIBRE
Name: Lorraine M. Hernandez Delgado
Lab at MSK: Jayanta Chaudhuri lab, Immunology Program
Undergraduate Institution: University of Puerto Rico at Humacao
Interest: MD track
Name: Alice Mensah
Lab at MSK: Iestyn Whitehouse lab, Molecular Biology Program
Undergraduate Institution: College of Staten Island
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student in Chemistry at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Name: Jahi J. Noel
Lab at MSK: Santosha Vardhana lab, Immuno-Oncology Program
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Interest: MD PhD track
Position after Bridge: MD PhD student at Rutgers University
Name: Rena Park
Lab at MSK: Thomas Vierbuchen lab, Developmental Biology Program
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at University of California, San Francisco
Lab at MSK: Chrysothemis Brown lab, Immuno-Oncology Program
Undergraduate institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: Fulbright scholar in Brazil; PhD student at the University of California at Berkeley
Lab at MSK: Ed Reznik lab, Epidemiology and Statistics Program
Undergraduate institution: Seton Hall University
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: Bioinformatics technician at MSK; PhD student at Weill Cornell Graduate School
Lab at MSK: Justin Perry lab, Immunology Program
Undergraduate institution: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Interest: MD track
Position after Bridge: MD student at University of Louisville, KY
Lab at MSK: Melinda Diver lab, Structural Biology Program
Undergraduate institution: Bard College
Interest: MD PhD track
Position after Bridge: MD PhD student at University of Connecticut, CT
Lab at MSK: Daniel Bachovchin lab, Chemical Biology Program
Undergraduate institution: Syracuse University
Interest: MD track
Position after Bridge: MD student at University of San Juan Bautista, PR
Name: Sarina McElduff
Lab at MSK: Thomas Norman lab, Computational & Systems Biology
Undergraduate institution: Occidental College
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student at the Cancer Research UK, Scotland Institute
Lab at MSK: Craig Thompson lab, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
Undergraduate institution: Columbia University
Interest: MD PhD track
Position after Bridge: MD PhD student at the Tri-Institutional MD PhD program
Name: Miozzottys Pérez Rosario
Lab at MSK: Gretchen Diehl lab, Immunology Program
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at Vanderbilt University
Name: Sofia Piedrafita-Ortiz
Lab at MSK: Adrienne Boire lab, Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Undergraduate institution: University of California at Berkeley
Interest: MD PhD track
Position after Bridge: Research assistant at New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University
Name: Eliud Rivas Hernández
Lab at MSK: Tuomas Tammela lab, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student in the Biomedical Sciences Program at Colorado State University
Lab at MSK: Karuna Ganesh lab, Molecular Pharmacology Program
Undergraduate institution: University of California at Los Angeles
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: Laboratory technician at MSK; PhD student at Scrippts
Lab at MSK: Ross Levine lab, Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Interest: MD track
Position after Bridge: MD student at Ponce Health Sciences University
Lab at MSK: Michael Glickman lab, Immunology Program
Undergraduate institution: Arizona State University
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student in the Immunology Program at University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Lab at MSK: Daniel Heller lab, Molecular Pharmacology Program
Undergraduate institution: State University of New York at Binghamton
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student in the Cancer Engineering Program at Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Lab at MSK: Mary Baylies lab, Developmental Biology Program
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
Interest: PhD track
Position after Bridge: PhD student in the Molecular and Developmental Biology Program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Name: Serina B. Young
Lab at MSK: Charles Sawyers lab, Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Undergraduate institution: University of California at Santa Cruz
Interest: MD PhD track
Position after Bridge: Laboratory technician at Columbia University
Lab at MSK: Piro Lito
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Interest: MD PhD track
Position after Bridge: MD PhD student at University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center