CABM Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program Overview
Undergraduate students conducting research in CABM laboratories have an opportunity to participate in a nine-week summer program. In addition to training and mentoring in individual laboratories, students meet weekly as a group with graduate student and postdoctoral program leaders to discuss and present their research projects and to learn about research challenges and career opportunities from faculty speakers. Students working in CABM laboratories who are funded by other summer programs* (e.g., Aresty Summer Science Program, DLS SURF Awards, NeuroSURP, Project SUPER. RISE at Rutgers) also participate in the CABM SURE program. Many summer research scholars continue doing research in CABM laboratories for credit during the academic year and go on to graduate and medical schools and careers in science and biomedicine. CABM gratefully acknowledges private and corporate donations that support this program.
How to Apply for the 2025 CABM Summer Research Program
Students interested in research opportunities in CABM laboratories are encouraged to read about research projects being pursued in CABM laboratories and to contact individual faculty members directly to inquire about available positions. The 2025 summer program will run from June 2nd to August 1st and ends with a poster session during the last week. Full-time research for all nine weeks of the program is required. Each participant receives a stipend of $4000. Applicants to the summer program who have already made arrangements to conduct research in a CABM laboratory should submit an application form by May 2, 2025. Note: This program does not provide housing.
2025
Supported by gifts from Bristol Myers Squibb, the Kronthal Family Foundation, the Takara Bio/Inouye Endowed Fund and the Zakaria Family Foundation.
PROGRAM LEADERS
- Arjun Rana
- Daphne Weikert
- Duhita Sant
- Ernesto Berrios-Caro
- Jay Joshi
- Rachana Rao Battaje
- Smruti Dixit
- Valeria Cardena
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Adhya Gummadi
- Aditya Mohapatra
- Adrija Kundu
- Akshara Anand
- Aliya Nagaria
- August Liu
- Brandon Chang
- Brynn Sillick
- Carly Drobbin
- Crystal Wu
- Hima Sankar Karthik Sivaleasetti
- Juliana Memoli
- Nicholas Phillips Bartlett
- Nicole Lesiczka
- Ofek Harnof
- Sera Wong
- Shayan Shah
Past Years
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Supported by gifts from the Kronthal Family Foundation, the Takara Bio/Inouye Endowed Fund and the Zakaria Family Foundation
PROGRAM LEADERS
- Rachana Rao Battaje
- Jay Joshi
- Cindy Muco
- David Pople
- Arjun Rana
- Duhita Sant
- Margot Shumaker
- Meifan Zhang
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Shreya Bhardwaj
- Michael Cheng
- Yash Chennawar
- Meryem Cicek
- William DeGroat
- Dhru Desai
- Or Doni
- Carly Drobbin
- Adhya Gummadi
- Brinda Guntur
- Shady Harfouch
- Atharv Jayprakash
- Adrija Kundu
- Juliana Memoli
- Prit Patel
- Brynn Sillick
- Shivali Vanodia
- Anshul Voleti
- Crystal Wu
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Supported by gifts from Zakaria Family Foundation and Lilly
PROGRAM LEADERS
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Alexandra Grumet
- Anshuraj Sedai
- Atharv Jayprakash
- Bibhuti Shah
- Dareen Shah
- Dylan Klein
- Eleanor Ketterer-Sykes
- Halim Salifu
- Hasan Kunukcu
- Jacob Anthony Michael Sievers
- Joshua Platzman
- Kamal Kumar Sah
- Kate Yashmanov
- Kishan Patel
- Lauren Lee
- Maya Salameh
- Meryem Cicek
- Pratishna K C
- Rojan Basnet
- Sneha Bhattacharya
- Timothy Qi
- William DeGroat
- Yarelliz Valentin
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PROGRAM TEACHERS
PROGRAM HELPER TEACHERS
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
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- Adam Silhavy
- Anjalika Bandaru
- David Pople
- Disha Bharj
- Dylan Klein
- Prit Patel
- Rhea Desai
- Ridhima Agrawal
- Samantha Brokaw
- Sandhya Senthilkumar
- Sneha Bhattacharya
- Tim Qi
- Tyler Rivera
- William DeGroat
- Zeyue Li
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POST DOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Amani Hassan
- Anjali Patel
- Anushka Subrahmanian
- Charvi Shah
- David Pople
- Kevin Titkov
- Kiran Hiremath
- Kithmy Wickramasinghe
- Margaret Tran
- Myah Rios
- Natassia Samadzelkava
- Rhea Desai
- Ridhima Agrawal
- Samantha Brokaw
- Shreya Jain
- Vidhi Patel
- Zeyue Li
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POST DOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Natalie Losada
- Douglas Pike
- Dr. Saroj Poudel
- Shawn Rumrill
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Alyssa Pilch
- Anjali Patel
- Anushka Subrahmanian
- Charvi Shah
- Kelsey Wolfe
- Risa Takino
- Roshan Rao
- Samantha Brokaw
- Zeyue Li
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GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Natalie Losada
- Monal Mehta
- Shawn Rumrill
- Gabe Villegas
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Kat Adams
- Shumaila Ahmed
- Alex Chalk
- Elise Gerdes
- Jingzhou Hao
- Libby Helfant
- Siddharth Marwaha
- Anurag Modak
- Kelly Needles
- Alyssa Pilch
- Myah Rios
- Risa Takino
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Supported by gifts from Bristol-Myers Squibb, the Kronthal Family Foundation & the Zakaria Family Foundation
GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Jerry Joe Harrison
- Monal Mehta
- Ryan Woltz
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Carlie Hanlon
- Libby Helfant
- Viviane Liao
- Stephen McGuire
- Siddharth Marwaha
- Anurag Modak
- Briana Nunez
- Janaki Patel
- Shaheer Rizwan
- Puru Saxena
- Harrison Whitman
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Supported by gifts from the Russell Grinell Memorial Trust, Amicus Therapeutics, Bristol-Myers Squibb & the Kronthal Family Foundation
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Dr. Aaron Collier
- Dr. Abla Tannous
- Ryan Woltz
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Nisha Bhavsar
- Samantha D’Aversa
- Lucre’ce Estropia
- Katherine Godfrey
- Carlie Hanlon
- Jennifer Jiang
- Rachel John
- Diljeet Kaur
- Christopher Kim
- Anurag Modak
- Chielozor Okafor
- Pooja Rao
- Jason Thiagaram
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Supported in part by gifts from Amicus Therapeutics, Bristol-Myers Squibb & the Kronthal Family Foundation
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Myka Ababon
- Julia Nemtsova
- Dr. Abla Tannous
- Ryan Woltz
- Dr. Samantha Yost
PROGRAM SCHOLARS
- Maria Dominguez-Ayuzo
- Jennifer Jian
- Allysa Kemraj
- Christopher Kim
- Amoli Kulkarni
- Ryan Levy
- Elizabeth Nand
- Kienan O’Dwyer
- Roohi Patel
- Natalia Patel
- Krupa Shah
- Mahir Surian
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Supported in part by a gift from the Kronthal Family Foundation
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Dr. Swapna Gurla
- Dr. Abdul Khan
- Kenneth McGuinness
- Dr. Steve Tuske
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
- Neil Bhavsar
- Debalina Datta
- Katherine Godfrey
- Kevin Gruber
- Anthony Hoang
- Amoli Kulkarni
- Ryan Levy
- Kaiser Loell
- Julia Nemtsova
- Kajal Patel
- Roohi Patel
- Veer Patel
- Adam Schwing
- Mahir Sufian
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Dr. Eric Mbua
- Kenneth McGuinness
- Dr. Yu Meng
- Dr. Steve Tuske
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
- Shreedevi Arunkumar
- Valeria Chew
- Marium Javed
- Gleb Kalmykov
- Amoli Kulkami
- Kaiser Loell
- Monika Masanam
- Kinnari Modi
- Julia Nemtsova
- Roohi Patel
- Daniel Quintin
- Adam Schwing
- Nicole Taylor
- Samantha Wadsworth
- Jennifer Wong
- Tyler Zukofsky
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Kenneth McGuinness
- Dr. Kamana Misra
- Dr. Steve Tuske
- Dr. Jillian Whidby
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
- Pavithra Arunachalam
- Shreedevi Arunkuman
- Alicja Cygan
- Gopal Govindraj
- Emily Grasso
- Nida Hasan
- Rishi Jaggernauth
- Kaustubh Kulkarni
- Michelle Li
- Yu Li
- Tianyun Jason Lin
- Monika Masanam
- Luke O’Conner
- Srushti Raja
- Adam Schwing
- Jungmin Seo
- Alan Tran
- Zilin Zhou
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Dr. Abdul Khan
- Kenneth McGuinness
- Dr. Kamana Misra
- Dr. Poonam Molli
- Dr. Steve Tuske
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
- Nicole Brunck
- Alicja Cygan
- Alexander Davis
- Sarah Finkelstein
- Emily Grasso
- Rishi Jaggernauth
- Kaustubh Kulkarni
- Kaiser Loell
- Matthew Murdick
- Patrick O’Connell
- Vishal Parikh
- Kaiwal Patel
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Fuguo Jiang
- Dr. Kangxin Jin
- Dr. Paul Leonard
- Kenneth McGuinness
- Dr. Jim Stapleton
- Dr. Steve Tuske
UNDERGRADUATE AND HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARS
- Mohamed Albana
- Alexander Davis
- Nikita Ekheliker
- George Ghanim
- Benjamin Hanft
- Amy Suhotliv
- Sammy Taha
- Aparna Tatineni
- Jash Vakil
- Jose Valverde
- Frank Zong
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Supported by a gift from Johnson & Johnson
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Dr. Joe Bauman
- Yolanda Hom
- Daniel Hsieh
- Dr. Paul Leonard
- Dr. Yu Meng
- Dr. Poonam Molli
UNDERGRADUATE AND HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARS
- Daniel Alman
- Brendan Amer
- Terence An
- Hoi Wun Au
- Christopher Burns
- Krishna Doppalapudi
- Dhaval Gandhi
- Mihir Joshi
- Eitan Kohan
- Frances Marin
- Jianliang Man
- Samantha Margulies
- Joseph Miller
- Dhruv Patel
- Mira Patel
- Tapan Patel
- Ari Sapin
- Rashesh Shah
- Zeynep Uzumcu
- Lin-Lin Wang
- Teddy Wohlbold
- Patricia Yau
- Sohail Zahid
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Supported by a gift from Johnson & Johnson
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Dr. Mary Fitzgerald
- Dr. William Ho
- Mohammed Islam
- Tzu-hsing Kuo
- Dr. Shengguo Li
- Pengling Sun
UNDERGRADUATE AND HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARS
- Emmie Arnold
- Lizzie Arnold
- Vani Dusi Thomas Erlich
- Noam Fine
- Marc Fromer
- Paul Harvilla
- David King
- Lauren Klayman
- Forest Lai
- Alexander Montelione
- Lisa Prevedel
- Lucas Salvatore
- Curtis Schauder
- Teddy John Wohlbold
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Supported by a gift from Johnson & Johnson
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW PROGRAM LEADERS
- Dr. Christopher Barbieri
- Dr. Mary Fitzgerald
- Dr. Rong Gao
- Dr. William Ho
- Dr. Hunter Mosley
UNDERGRADUATE AND HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARS
- Ami Amin
- Elizabeth Chang
- Chandni Desai
- Jyoti Duggal
- Manoj Easaw
- Paul Harvilla
- Lyn Lee
- Daniel Levine
- Ayesha Makhdoom
- Sonya Malari
- Yonatan Mintz
- Katie Montelione
- Angela Rim
- Curtis Schauder
- Shudan Wang
- Krysztof Woitak
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Supported by a gift from Johnson & Johnson
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Dr. Mary Fitzgerald
- Yolanda Hom
- Haisong Jiang
- Dr. Hunter Mosley
- Dr. Nancy Vranich
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
- Sana Attar
- Zahra Beizaeipour
- Jason Corbiere
- Daniel De Wysockie
- Erin Folger
- Christopher Gerber
- Keith Hamilton
- Hoi Ching (Lynn) Lee
- Justin Nistico
- Priya Patel
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Supported by a gift from Johnson & Johnson
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Tanya Borsuk
- Sayali Dixit
- Victoria Swiss
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
- Gregg Barcan
- Mukta Baweja
- Erin Folger
- Arun Handa
- Mehreen Iqbal
- Joel Marimuthu
- Dipikaben Patel
- Abraham Rashin
- Jamil Shaikh
- Adarsh Yagnik
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Supported by a gift from Johnson & Johnson
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM LEADERS
- Timothy Mack
- Anna Puzio
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
- Sudipta Bandyopadhyay
- Mukta Baweja
- Sapna Bulikal
- Zhe Chen
- Anna Dulencin
- Neha Kaushik
- Dan Marchalnik
- Joel Marimuthu
- Elton Muci
- Anna Natenzon
- Jay Patel
- Ramya Rao
- Boris Rozenfeld
- James Tyminski
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Supported by a gift from Johnson & Johnson
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND GRADUATE STUDENT LEADERS
- Timothy Mack
- Anna Puzio
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS
- Kevin Bray
- Zhe Chen
- Drew Clark
- Yvonne Farnacil
- Neha Kaushik
- Jim-Lin Kheng
- Lori Lesli
- Maria Shin
- Sam Tischfield
- Tiffany Tsay
- Kapil Varma
