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ASBMB welcomes new members
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology welcomed 130 new members in July.
| Yahya Abdulrahman, Saint Cloud State University Taiwo Abifarin, Mississippi State University Karen Agaronyan, Yale University Jessse Allen, Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso Michael Almeida, University of North Carolina at Pembroke William Amendola Bye, Boston University Ethan Athey, University of California, Santa Barbara Rami Ballout, National Institutes of Health Anthony Bally, Wayne State University Haley Barlow, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Anna Brennan, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School Nick Bretz, Illinois State University Madissen Burns, College of St. Scholastica Momodou Camara, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Stephen Caponetti, University of Maryland Jason Carl, Clemson University Peyton Carpen, Cornell University Michelle Castillo, California State University, Long Beach Bhaskar Chatterjee, University of Michigan Guangxin Chen, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Alison Chomiak, Van Andel Institute Amelia Cochran, University of Michigan Kevin Coleman, uniQure Kerrie Collins, University of Washington Laura Danner, Medical College of Wisconsin Kelly DeMarco, University of Massachusetts Amherst Frank DiGiorgio, Rowan University Jimmy Dikeakos, Western University Brandon Ellison, Winthrop University Emily Erickson, Harvard University Dan Estevez, Texas State University Qin Feng, University of Houston Jake Friske, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Ashley Glover, University of Massachusetts Amherst Olesia Gololobova, Johns Hopkins University John Gonzales, San Francisco State University Junior Gonzales–Arevalo, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Dylan Gray, Otterbein University Kevin Guan, New York University Gabrielle Gunderson, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse Emily Han, Boston University Colin Hawkes, University of Massachusetts Amherst Catherine Hayes, University of Illinois at Chicago Luis Helfer, University of Arizona Tristan Henderson, Mississippi State University Alfa Herrera, Northwestern University Lauren Herron, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie Alissandra Hillis, Harvard University Jesse Hopkins, Illinois Institute of Technology Sonia Aamer Iqbal, University of California, Davis John Isaac, Boston University Jacob Kailing, University of Wisconsin-–La Crosse Blake Karavas, Northeastern University Anna Kirstein, Leipzig University Thomas Kiselak, Caldwell Intellectual Property Law Piers Klein, Boston University Sunnie Kong, University of California, Berkeley Zoe Konstantinidis, Villanova University Margaret Larsen, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Alex Larson, Oregon Health & Science University Yeongjoon Lee, Duke University Caleb Legrand, Mississippi State University Fu-Cheng Liang, Midwestern State University Eric Lu, Washington University in St. Louis Setty Magana, Nationwide Children’s Hospital |
Kathleen Mannino, Washington University in St. Louis Julie Marchioni, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Diandra Mastrogiacomo, University of South Florida Josefina Mendez, Harvard University Marco Messina, University of California, Berkeley Keaton Minor, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Brandy Moser, University of New Hampshire Hana Neutz, Chapman University Julie Nguyen, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Catherine Nichols, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Jacob North, University of Washington Yudhi Nugraha, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta Yannick Omombo Mathongo, University of California, Riverside Emily Pack, Otterbein University Reina Paez, University of Texas Medical Branch Luis Enrique Paez Beltran, University of New Mexico Anand Panigrahy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Sophia Park, National Institutes of Health Elizabeth Paulino, Blue Bio Networking Inc. Manuel Perez, Florida International University Grace Perry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Thomas Petrowski, Trinity University Sydney Phan, California State University, Long Beach Jasmine Pippins, Mississippi State Jacob Polzin, University of Virginia Lars Ponsness, University of Montana Marianna Prokopi, Cyprus University of Technology Jen Quick-Cleveland, University of California, Santa Cruz Hadiar Rahman, National Institutes of Health Elizabeth Rastede, University of Hartford Shoshana Ravid, Hadassah Medical School Matthew Rexroad, West Virginia University Richard Romero, University of New Mexico Martina Rosenberg, University of Connecticut Manuel Ruiz, University of North Texas Rehab Salama, University of Massachusetts Lowell Jason Sanders, EV Biologics Inc. Gargi Saradadevi, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Hannah Scheaffer, Duke University Thomas Scudder, University of Massachusetts Amherst Max Seaman, Northeastern University Rithika Senthilkumar, University of Massachusetts Amherst Sunita Sharma, Sharda University Cameron Sherman, Ohio State University Lily Slemp, Pfizer Inc. Iris Smith, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute Cecilia Spesia, University of Michigan Tiaishia Spragins, North Carolina State University Greeshma Sreejesh, Oklahoma State University Senah Stephens, Dermatology Associates Muktadir Talukder, PPD Laboratories Ensley Tanner, Medical University of South Carolina Jaime Thissen, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Derrick Thomas, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Elisa Thrasher, Colorado State University Chris Tinkey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Diego Toscano, University of California, Davis Fu Wang, Xidian University Rachel Wevrick, University of Alberta Elizabeth Whitman, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center Renata Widelak, University of Minnesota Velencia Witherspoon, National Institutes of Health Dongmin Yin, East China Normal University Kouichi Yoshinari, University of Shizuoka Xu Hannah Zhang, City of Hope |
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