Hildana graduate from Smith in 2025 with B.A. in Biological Sciences and a B.S. in Engineering Science. She completed the VBIL’s first honors thesis, where she assessed the viability of miRNA markers for assessing ovarian cancer risk, with the goal of developing point of care diagnostic testing. After graduating from Smith, she went on to pursue a Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics at Yale University.
Four student research teams submitted abstract to Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology, one of the major computational biology conferences, which will be held in Washington D.C. in July.
Today Hildana Shiferaw gave an excellent presentation of her honors thesis on a urine-based screening approach for ovarian cancer!
Rising seniors Hildana Shiferaw and Tseegi Nyamdorj presented lightning talks at Computational Systems for Integrative Genomics at the Flatiron Institute in NYC!
We are excited to share that Hildana Shiferaw has been selected as an Honors Fellow through the AEMES McKinley Fellowship Program!
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