Angelina Chan
Angelina Chan, from Long Grove, Illinois, is completing an M.S. in Biology at Stanford University, where she recently graduated with a B.S. with Honors and Distinction in Human Biology and minors in Chemistry and English. Angelina started college at 16 years old as a Provost Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been conducting genetics research ever since transferring to Stanford her sophomore year — from her honors thesis on coevolved adaptation to K1 killer toxin in budding yeast, to her current work studying epigenetic regulation of the human centromere. She is a 2023 Goldwater Scholar and received the J.E. Wallace Sterling Award as one of the top 25 students in her graduating class.
Outside of academics, Angelina volunteers with Matriculate, a national nonprofit helping high-achieving, low-income high school students apply to college, where she served as class of 2023 Head Advising Fellow for the Stanford cohort. She is also an avid harpist with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and loves to read/watch sci-fi and Asian-American literature in her free time.
As a Marshall Scholar, Angelina plans to pursue a DPhil in Chemistry at the University of Oxford.