Summer Student Research Program

Summer 2008

Here is a group photo taken during one of the lunch-time seminars:

Front row, left to right: (mentored by, attending college/university)
Chiang Li (Warren Merrifield, CWRU)
Anna Unruh (Alfred Fonteh, St. Edward's Univ.)
Danielle Fisher (Alfred Fonteh, Scripps College)
Susan Onami (Alfred Fonteh, UC Berkeley)
Adam Kantor (Mike Harrington, Occidental College)
Brenda Ou (Ashraf Imam, Stanford Univ.)
Kathleen Teves (Victor Pikov, UC Irvine)

Back row, left to right:
Aman Sandhu (Brian Ross, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Adam Kolawa (Brian Ross, USC)
Peter Bruno (Brian Ross, UC San Diego)
Marc Huh (Ashraf Imam, IL Inst. Tech.)
Christina Popa (Ashraf Imam, UCLA)
Henry Ho (Marylou Ingram, USC)

Summer 2007

The Summer Student Research Program brought 10 students from around the United States to HMRI laboratories. These students were involved in biomedical research and worked under the mentorship of HMRI researchers. At the end of the summer program, they presented results of their research projects.

Here is a group photo taken during one of the lunch-time seminars:

Front row, left to right: (mentored by, attending college/university)

Christine Yu (Brian Ross, Boston U)
Vignesh Raghunath (Ashraf Imam, CWRU)
Mary Ann Gallup (Ashraf Imam, Boston U)
Ajay Ullal (Brian Ross, UCLA)
Leyen Hsu (Myron Tong, UC Berkeley)

Back row, left to right:

Eulanca Lu (Alfred Fonteh, UC Berkeley)
A. Zoe Reidinger (Marylou Ingram, Virginia Commonwealth U)
Katherine Trawick (Alfred Fonteh, USC)
Tara Sharma (Alfred Fonteh, Claremont McKenna College)
Hailey Foster (Mike Harrington, Scripps College)

Summer 2006

The Summer Student Research Program brought 14 students from around the United States to HMRI laboratories. In addition to these students, we hosted 4 students selected through Caltech SURF Program sponsored by the American Heart Association and 2 students selected through USC Summer Research Program.

Here is a group photo taken during one of the lunch-time seminars:

Front row, left to right: (attending college/university, mentored by)

Min Kang (Cornell U, Ashraf Imam)
Patrick Lu (La Canada HS, Mike Harrington)
Rainbow Chung (Pitzer C, Alfred Fonteh)
Susette Cheng (Pitzer C, Alfred Fonteh)
Joo Lee Song (Columbia U, Michael Glovsky)

Middle row, left to right:

Vishnu Sharma (Louisiana Tech U, Douglas McCreery)
Raymond Weitekamp (Princeton U, Brian Ross)
Derek Leong (Johns Hopkins U, Marylou Ingram)
Bryant Khoo (Arcadia HS, Victor Pikov)
Nerissa Alday (Valencia CC, James Riggins)

Back row, left to right:

Lynn Nuccio (Villanova U, Brian Ross)
Elise McKenna (Utah State U, Brian Ross)
Lauren Wisk (UCLA, Brian Ross)
Neil Okey (Occidental C, Mike Harrington)
Shuai Xu (Rice U, Faye Eggerding)

Not in Photo:

Ara Rostima (Berkeley, Brian Ross)
Siu Kei Chow (UCSD, Brian Ross)
VuAuh Truong (Pomona C, Ashraf Imam)
Eric Kuo (Berkeley, Ashraf Imam)
Albert Tran ( U Illinois-Chicago, Mike Harrington)

For more information on the HMRI Summer Student Program, please contact:

Dr. Victor Pikov
Huntington Medical Research Institutes
734 Fairmount Ave.
Pasadena, California 91105
(626) 397-5850 or Email: PikovAtHMRIdotORG