Valentina Grillo Alvarado
Molecular and Cellular Biology Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Washington
Research Interests: Hematology, Immunology and Cancer Biology
E-mail: valentina.grilloalvarado@seattlechildrens.org
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
Education: BS in Molecular Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (UPR-RP)
Awards/Fellowships/Grants:
- ASH Graduate Hematology Award (2024-2026, declined)
- UW MCB Graduate School Scholarship. Selected based on PhD program application (2019)
- Sofía Cruz Torres Award. Faculty nominate and award a student who exceled in athletic and academic performance within the UPR-RP College of Natural Sciences (2019)
- Fellowship, Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U-STAR) Program at the UPR-RP ( NIH T34GM008721-38 and 5T34GM007821-39) (2017-2019)
- Fellowship, Stanford Summer Research Program-Amgen Scholars Program (2018)
- Fellowship, The Leadership Alliance Summer Research- Early Identification Program at Brown University (2017)
Interests Outside Lab: cooking, reading, swimming