Pinoy Scientists in the United States of America

Jonathan Concepcion is a PhD student in Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology at Michigan State University.

Carla Bertulfo is a PhD candidate in Biological Sciences at Columbia University. For Carla’s doctoral studies, they are using the Nobel Prize-winning gene editing technology CRISPR to explore combinatorial therapies against T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Lowell Iporac is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Environment at the Florida International University. In his current doctoral work, Lowell explores interactions between macroalgae and invertebrates as well as investigates the characteristics of habitat-forming organisms in tropical shallow coastal systems.

Andrea Salvador is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Virginia. Since starting her PhD, Andoi has already published in prestigious journals like Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Immunology, Nature Reviews Immunology and Cell.

Sero graduated with a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Neuroscience, with minors in Economics and Comparative American Studies from Oberlin College. Currently, Sero is a graduate research fellow at Princeton exploring the genetic mechanisms of early-life stress.

Meg Daupan is a Program Manager for the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. Currently, she leads all aspects of the DDCSP-UM from recruiting students across the United States, to building partnerships with environmental researchers and conservation professionals, and serving as a mentor to the scholars.

Colleen Rosales is an Environmental Science and Chemistry practitioner. She is conducting research interests revolve around atmospheric chemistry, indoor air quality and ambient air pollution among others.

Mae Mercado is an Agriculture and Agronomy practitioner. She used to be a researcher and assistant scientist at the International Rice Research Institute.

Nikki Dyanne Realubit is a graduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. Nikki was the project leader for establishing the ecological information on the McGregor’s pit viper in Batanes, a project coordinator for terrestrial biodiversity research methods on the birds of Tawi-Tawi and a biology teacher at the Holistic Education and Development Center in Taytay, Rizal.

Rose De Guzman is a research fellow at the Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology department at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Some of her current research interests include maternal-infant neuro health, neurodevelopment, sex differences and stress among others.

Aaron Alcala is a PhD student in Genetics at the University of Georgia. For his current PhD thesis, Aaron is studying mammal, reptile, bird limb and genital development.

Armbien Sabillo is a scientist and law student seeking to go into patent law and science policy. He is currently taking up his Juris Doctor at UC Berkeley specializing in Intellectual Property Law.

Kiwi Florido is a PhD student taking up the Biological Sciences in Public Health Program at Harvard University in the USA. She is investigating studies in the field of stem cell biology, aging, apoptosis and cancer.

Zara Fernandez is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Salesforce.

Kirstene Gultian is a doctoral research fellow at Rowan University in New Jersey, USA studying Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering. In her research, she develops hydrogel-based materials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, particularly for bone regeneration and guiding stem cell differentiation and behavior.

Christian Gloria is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. His latest research examines the mental health of Filipinos from Pampanga, where he investigates the factors that enable people to adapt, grow and thrive against chronic stress and adversity.

Krizelle Alcantara is a research assistant at the Center for Gene Therapy at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute in Ohio, USA where she works towards understanding her own disease – Neurofibromatosis – by developing a gene replacement therapy for NF2.

Matthew Go is a forensic anthropologist at the US Department of Defense’s Central Identification Laboratory. He is primarily engaged in the applications of anthropology and archaeology to medico-legal issues involving human skeletal remains.

John Paul Tosoc is a doctoral student in Biology from the Mindanao State University – Iiligan Institute of Technology. Paul has been trained in many cool techniques, including: nanoformulation, nanospectroscopy, cancer cell culture, high-performance liquid chromatography and plenty more!

Boaz Lee is a machine learning researcher at Facebook. His work currently focuses on the area of graph representation learning and temporal sequence modeling.