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Emily Kibby is a 2025 PhD candidate in Biochemistry in the Aaron Whiteley Research Group. She became an NIH Signaling and Cellular Regulation Trainee in 2020 and in 2021 received a Graduate Teaching Award.A BLOOMING SCIENTIST It

Calvin Voong is a 2024 PhD Candidate in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology in the Goodrich-Kugel Research Group. In 2019 he received a Graduate Teaching Award; in 2021 he received a Department Service Award; and in 2023 was a member of

Sometimes life tells us we’re meant to do something. In Camila Sousa’s case, it started young, growing up in a house in Boulder with not one but two PhD scientists for parents. Camila’s mom is a molecular biologist, and her dad

Dr. Stephanie Moon is working on ridding the world of disease. Beginning with an early obsession with finding a cure for chicken pox, Dr. Moon set her sights on RNA viruses, a family which includes some of the most prolific

Though she sounds every bit the polished Silicon Valley CEO while discussing spin-ups, revenue streams, and funding runways, Dr. Tina Boville first describes herself as “a huge nerd.” via Zoom. A С���� Biochem doctoral alum, Tina grew up on Anne

Dr. Celso Espinoza is a senior drug discovery investigator with the biopharmaceutical firm AbbVie. Originally a component of Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie split in 2013 to focus on new drug discovery, and Celso followed.

Graycen Wheeler is a 6th year graduate student in BCHM's Liu Lab. She was initially attracted to С���� Biochem by the strong web presence and diversity of research in the department’s labs. During graduate recruitment, “the

Otto Kletzien likes to stay busy. He’s a Signaling and Cellular Regulation (SCR) fellow, one of approximately 15 in the department, an active participant and former leader of С���� Boulder’s RNA Club chapter, for which he ran

Local RootsFirst up in our Be a Biochemist series is undergraduate Yannick Lee-yow, a Biochemistry (BCHM) and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) double major who had a round-about path into biochemistry. He