Stanford Bio-X is delighted to announce the 2026 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP) cohort. With guidance and support from Bio-X, their Stanford faculty mentors, and their research labs, these 88 stellar undergraduates will undertake full-time research – many of them for the first time – in the labs of 79 Stanford faculty who represent 34 different departments.
Since its inception in the summer of 2005 with a single first-generation college-going Stanford undergraduate student looking for a chance to do hands-on laboratory research, the Stanford Bio-X USRP has awarded 1,159 Stanford undergraduates. Our richly fulfilling summer program nurtures these stellar students’ careers and enriches their Stanford experience by supporting them for ten weeks while they conduct hands-on research, build their skill sets, learn about interdisciplinary research taking place at countless labs across campus, and connect with the faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and other undergraduates who make up the Bio-X community.
This summer, our 2026 cohort will immerse themselves in ten weeks of full-time research, take ownership of a research project, design experiments, collect data, analyze their data, and conclude the program by presenting their results to their peers and over 700 members of the Bio-X community at our poster session. Over the course of the ten weeks, they will hear from 30 Stanford faculty sharing their research journeys and current projects, learn in journal club sessions how to critically analyze and present scientific manuscripts, and establish and refine scientific skills through Bio-X’s rigorous and unique workshop series.
The formative experience of the Bio-X program influences undergraduate students’ subsequent work at Stanford and beyond. Alumni of the program have founded and co-founded start-up companies, acquired faculty positions in institutions around the world, and obtained PhDs, MDs, and MD/PhDs and other post-graduate degrees, opened medical practices, and much more. Three Bio-X USRP alums – Dr. Jesse Engreitz (Genetics), Dr. Alex Gao (Biochemistry), and Dr. David Cox (Genetics) – have already returned to Stanford to become faculty members here on campus, where they now mentor up-and-coming graduate and undergraduate researchers in their own labs. Alumni of the program are giving back to Bio-X USRP in many ways including monetary donations and/or mentoring our students.
We are honored to welcome the 2026 undergraduate cohort to the Bio-X community and look forward to supporting them as they pursue their research endeavors, broaden their horizons, and discover the exciting frontiers of interdisciplinary research at Stanford.
To learn more about the program, meet the previous cohorts, and read about the successes of our alumni, please check out our previous years’ brochures or browse our students’ research abstracts!
Bio-X is grateful to our donors, including The Rose Hills Foundation, for providing support to the Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program. To help support this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these bright young researchers, please contact us!
The 2026 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP) Cohort and Their Faculty Mentors:
| Ronny Abdullah (Electrical Engineering), Faculty Mentor: Alexander Vezeridis (Radiology) | Griffin Lee (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Matthew Porteus (Pediatrics) |
| Nathan Adam (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: James Ford (Medicine - Oncology) | Ryan Lee (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Julien Sage (Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology) |
| Raza Ali (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Phillip Yang (Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine) | Victoria Lin (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Jessica Feldman (Biology) |
| Riya Anand (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Laura Gwilliams (Psychology) | Emily Linder (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Aaron Gitler (Genetics) |
| Roberto Andrade (Human Biology), Faculty Mentor: Timothy Durazzo (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | Colin Liu (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Ron Kopito (Biology) |
| Ojaswee Aryal (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Ravi Majeti (Medicine) | Chris Lopez (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Ashwin Ramayya (Neurosurgery) |
| Emma Ayala (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Jonas Cremer (Biology) | Esmeralda Matias (Human Biology), Faculty Mentor: Anna Gloyn (Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Genetics) |
| Ghazal Azhdari Mamooreh (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Anusha Kalbasi (Radiation Oncology) | Sarah Mian (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Jason Andrews (Medicine - Infectious Diseases) |
| Sophia Barnard (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Julia Kaltschmidt (Neurosurgery) | Saikiran Motati (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Brian Kobilka (Molecular & Cellular Physiology) |
| Talia Besikof (Design), Faculty Mentor: Kara Davis (Pediatrics - Hematology/ Oncology) | Julius Neumann (Engineering), Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Good (Applied Physics) |
| Jacob Chen (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Joseph Wu (Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine) | Kenza Ngatchou (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Matteo Molè (Obstetrics & Gynecology) |
| Jacqueline Chen (Chemical Engineering ), Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Brophy (Bioengineering) | Alex Ninomiya (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Calvin Kuo (Medicine - Hematology) |
| Peter Childs (Data Science), Faculty Mentor: Sherri Rose (Health Policy) | Rhys Ota (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Paul Bollyky (Medicine - Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology) |
| Haley Chu (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Anthony Wagner (Psychology) | Christopher Owens (Symbolic Systems), Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Raymond (Neurobiology) |
| Melody Dailey (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Robert Malenka (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | Marta Pambukhchyan (Biology), Faculty Mentors: Kristy Red-Horse (Biology) and Mark Skylar-Scott (Bioengineering) |
| Baran Daliri (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Jill Helms (Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery) | Vienna Panossian (Computer Science), Faculty Mentors: Fiona Baumer (Neurology - Pediatric Neurology) and Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) |
| Isabella Dang (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Justin Annes (Medicine - Endocrinology) | Yoojun (Evan) Park (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Michael Zeineh (Radiology) |
| Jaydon Deras (Chemical Engineering), Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Pinals (Chemical Engineering) | Aahana Paul (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Michelle Monje (Pediatric Neurology) |
| Diba Dindoust (Bioengineering ), Faculty Mentor: Gary Darmstadt (Pediatrics - Neonatology) | Jack Quach (Computer Science ), Faculty Mentor: Maya Kasowski (Pathology and Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine) |
| Nailah Donatto (Chemical Engineering), Faculty Mentor: Laura Dassama (Chemistry and Microbiology & Immunology) | Samson Raskin (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Tracey McLaughlin (Medicine - Endocrinology) |
| Ashley Dong (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Andreas Tolias (Ophthalmology) | Anna Rodden (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Paul Bollyky (Medicine - Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology) |
| John Eden-Sung (Physics), Faculty Mentor: Jose Dinneny (Biology) | Kyle Roh (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Siddharth Krishnan (Electrical Engineering) |
| Tia Evans (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Paul Bollyky (Medicine - Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology) | Luna Romero (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Martha Cyert (Biology) |
| Nicolette Fierro (Psychology), Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Rodriguez (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | Chelsea Salazar (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Florentine Rutaganira (Biochemistry and Developmental Biology) |
| Gabriella Fish (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Paul Wang (Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine) | Kian Salimi (Undeclared), Faculty Mentors: Calvin Kuo (Medicine - Hematology) and Guosong Hong (Materials Science & Engineering) |
| Theo Frano (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Kabir Peay (Biology and Earth Systems Science) | Devyn Sasai (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Monther Abu-Remaileh (Chemical Engineering and Genetics) |
| Macy Gong (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Michael Longaker (Surgery) | Eliza Schnitzer (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Ivan Soltesz (Neurosurgery and Neurosciences) |
| Nicholas Hadi (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: James Brooks (Urology) | Joseph Shelby (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Marius Wernig (Pathology) |
| Troy Harris (Biology), Faculty Mentor: Neir Eshel (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | Aniyah Shen (Human Biology), Faculty Mentor: William Giardino (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) |
| Nathan Herrera (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Aaron Gitler (Genetics) | Taisho Shiono (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Seung Kim (Developmental Biology and Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology & Metabolism) |
| Miles Hexun (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Katrin Andreasson (Adult Neurology) | Raina Singh (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Fan Yang (Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering) |
| James Ho (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Craig Levin (Radiology) | Orion Singha (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: José Dinneny (Biology) |
| Joseph Ho (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Zhenan Bao (Chemical Engineering) | Weston Smith (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Erinn Rankin (Radiation Oncology and Obstetrics & Gynecology) |
| Kaitlyn Hong (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Thomas Südhof (Molecular & Cellular Physiology) | Gabriel Stankovich (Computer Science), Faculty Mentor: Joseph Woo (Cardiothoracic Surgery) |
| Alan Huang (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Euan Ashley (Genetics and Biomedical Data Science) | Liz Tsai (Chemical Engineering ), Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Bertozzi (Chemistry) |
| Curran Jacobus (Chemical Engineering), Faculty Mentor: Ellen Rim (Chemical Engineering) | Zina Vidalakis (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Shirit Einav (Medicine - Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology) |
| Caden Jiang (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Lu Chen (Neurosurgery and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | Logan Wang (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Ehsan Adeli (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) |
| Jaemon Jumpawong (Symbolic Systems), Faculty Mentor: Luis deLecea (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | Coco Xia (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Jesse Engreitz (Genetics) |
| Hannah Kang (Symbolic Systems), Faculty Mentor: Claudia Padula (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | Sajeda Yagoub (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Joseph Wu (Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine) |
| Arshmeet Kaur (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Kavita Sarin (Dermatology) | Ava Yeh (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Tony Wyss-Coray (Neurology & Neurological Sciences) |
| Bridget Keel (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Jonas Cremer (Biology) | Catherine Yue (Computer Science), Faculty Mentor: Tirin Moore (Neurobiology) |
| Emma Kennedy (Bioengineering), Faculty Mentor: Annelise Barron (Bioengineering) | Chloe Zhong (Electrical Engineering), Faculty Mentor: Todd Coleman (Bioengineering) |
| Joie Kim (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Michelle Monje (Pediatric Neurology) | Aja Zou (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Gary Steinberg (Neurosurgery and Neurosciences) |
| Kaitlyn Kwan (Computer Science), Faculty Mentor: Ian Gotlib (Psychology) | Louiza Zughbaba (Undeclared), Faculty Mentor: Kavita Sarin (Dermatology) |