Welcoming new faces to TKL

We're excited to welcome new members to TKL! Ashvi Jain and Asma Kumar have officially joined our lab, and MBI PhD student Tanya Ivanov joins us for a fall rotation.

Ashvi Jain is a Bioengineering PhD student at UCLA. She earned her undergraduate degree in Pharmaceutical Technology at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, India, followed by a Master's in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Ashvi's passion for diagnostics began during her time as a Research Assistant at Penn Medicine, and she is now driven by the ambition to revolutionize healthcare through advanced, affordable diagnostics for infectious diseases. Outside of the lab, Ashvi loves gardening, exploring new countries and their cultures, watching sports, and reading biographies!

Asma Kumar joins us as a Bioengineering Master's student at UCLA. She completed her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine and has worked on microfluidic platforms for cancer and viral particle capture at Stanford. This experience fueled her interest in accessible, non-invasive diagnostic platforms. Asma is also a proud foodie, an enthusiastic cook, and enjoys staying active, learning new sports, and exploring languages and cultures!

Tanya is an Immunity, Microbes, and Molecular Pathogenesis PhD student who will be rotating in the Kamariza lab for Fall 2024. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Biomolecular Engineering from UC Santa Cruz in 2022, after which she worked in the biotech industry for 2 years before starting at UCLA. Her current research interests revolve around leveraging chemical and biological engineering to create accessible public health tools. Outside of the lab, Tanya enjoys backpacking, rock climbing, skiing, and spending time with her cat Suki!

We're thrilled to have these talented scientists on board and look forward to the exciting contributions they'll make!