2015 Landry Fellows
Daniel Cohen
Chemical Biology, Loren Walensky Lab
Daniel Thomas Cohen was born in Mountain View, California, and received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Biology from UC Berkeley in 2012. Dan has been a creative and passionate scientist from the very beginning of his academic career. At Berkeley, he...
Molly DeCristo
Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Sandra McAllister Lab
Molly DeCristo was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. As a youngster, she often wondered at the mystery of outer space and thought to one day study its vastness. As she grew older and saw the impact of cancer on the lives of her mother, aunt, and grandfather...
Jeff Gerold
Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Martin Nowak Lab
Jeff Gerold was born in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. In May 2013 he graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, with additional majors in Physics and Mathematics. Despite the heavy course load...
Yi-Jang Lin
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Kevin Haigis Lab
Yi-Jang Lin was born in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Yi-Jang is a star by all accounts. After being elected to Phi Beta Kappa, she graduated summa cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with Bachelors of Arts degrees in both Biology and French Language and...
Amy Schade
Virology, Jim DeCaprio Lab
Amy Schade was born in Grapevine, Texas. She graduated in 2013 from the University of North Texas, where she majored in Biology with a focus in Microbiology, and minored in both Chemistry and History. Amy was actually recruited to UNT as a debater and was...