Inês Godet is a postdoctoral fellow at the Gilkes Lab and she is expanding on the PhD work she developed in the lab on hypoxia and breast cancer metastasis. She earned her B.S.BioChem and M.S. degrees at Técnico Lisboa - Lisbon University. In 2015, she conducted research for her Master's thesis in the lab of Denis Wirtz, PhD, where she developed a high throughput 3D in vitro system for invasion and chemoresistance studies. She earned her PhD from the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University in 2021.

Natalie is a PhD student in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Natalie grew up on the Navajo Nation and graduated from Fort Lewis College in 2016 with a B.S. degrees in Cellular & Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She is currently studying the efficacy of MBZ in triple negative breast cancer and is co-mentored by Gregory Riggins, MD, PhD.

Harsh Oza is currently working on expanding his Master's thesis project in the lab as a Research Technologist. He earned his Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biotechnology in May 2021. He received a Bachelor's in Biotechnology from D. Y. Patil University, Mumbai, India in the year 2018. He previously worked on cancer research and the study of hypoxia at Advanced Centre for Treatmemt, Research and Education in Cancer [ACTREC]: Tata Memorial Centre [TMC] in India.

Fan Wu is a Master’s student of the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He received a Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University in 2020. He is currently researching the effects of hypoxia and extracellular matrix signaling on breast cancer metastasis. He plans to pursue a PhD in cancer research in the future.

Eddie is an NIH PREP Scholar and is currently working on two main projects under the guidance of Dr. Ines Godet and Dr. Daniele Gilkes. He grew up in Chicago and graduated from Lindenwood University in 2020 with a B.S degree in Biochemistry. He has had previous research experience working in Dr. Joan Brugge's lab through the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) at Harvard Medical School. After Eddie finishes his two-year PREP position, he is planning to pursue an MD-PhD.

Tommy Wang is a Master’s student of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Johns Hopkins University. He received a Bachelor's in Biology from Penn State University in 2021. He is currently researching the effects of extracellular matrix signaling on breast cancer metastasis. He plans to pursue a PhD in cancer research in the future.

Alyssa Weinstein is a Master’s student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She graduated from the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine with a B.S. in Medical Biology in 2019. She is currently studying breast cancer metastasis to the brain and hopes to pursue a PhD to continue cancer research in the future.

Esther Ng is an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University majoring in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Public Health. She plans to attend medical school in the future.