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Elizabeth Lee
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with Specialization in Biochemistry
Research Professor: Professor Ken Hsu
Biography
Elizabeth is from Burke, Virginia and graduated from Lake Braddock Secondary School. She is graduating a year early with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with a specialization in biochemistry.
Elizabeth has been a member of Ken Hsu’s lab in the Department of Chemistry since September 2017. Her project has been based around expressing and purifying the mammalian enzyme, diacylglycerol kinase alpha (DGKα), in a bacterial system. DGKα has been recently recognized as a cancer therapy target due its important roles in regulating cell proliferation pathways. Elizabeth hopes that her project in the Hsu Lab will assist in the characterization of the enzyme in future proteomic experiments.
Outside of lab, Elizabeth played piccolo for the Cavalier Marching Band, worked with a company to train and develop AI software for colon cancer detection, and has been a TA for CHEM 2410 and CHEM 2321. After graduating, she will take a gap year to continue her project with DGK α and plans on pursuing an Md-PhD the following year.