Alex is from Sausalito, California and graduated from the University of San Diego earning a B.A. in Biochemistry in 2022. He immediately joined Vanderbilt University through the IGP and the Pua lab in 2023. In his free time he enjoys playing the piano.

Alyssa grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and attended Valparaiso University in Indiana for her dual B.S. in Chemistry and Biology. In her free time, she enjoys playing piano, singing, sewing, and reading.

I was born in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in Westfield, Indiana. In May 2022 I graduated from Purdue University where I obtained my Bachelor's in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology. During my undergraduate career, I worked with Dr. Majid Kazemian on EBV-associated cancers. Following my graduation from Purdue, I joined Vanderbilt in 2022 through the IGP!

I'm from Walterboro, South Carolina and obtained my BS in Biology at the University of South Carolina - Beaufort (USCB) in 2022. It was at USCB that I worked under Dr. Edward D'Antonio in his early-stage drug discovery lab for neglected tropical diseases such as Chagas' disease and African sleeping sickness for ~3 years. Right after that I joined the IGP program at Vanderbilt and eventually MPI, working in Dr. Keith Wilson's lab.

I'm originally from Nigeria, I earned my B.S and MS in Biology from Tuskegee University in 2020 and 2022 respectively. I immediately joined Vanderbilt through the IGP program in 2022 and the MHI graduate program in 2023.