Angelina Chan
Angelina Chan, from Long Grove, Illinois, is completing an M.S. in Biology at StanfordUniversity, where she recently graduated with a B.S. with Honors and Distinction inHuman Biology and minors in Chemistry and English. Angelina started college at 16years old as a Provost Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Shehas been conducting genetics research ever since transferring to Stanford hersophomore year — from her honors thesis on coevolved adaptation to K1 killer toxin inbudding yeast, to her current work studying epigenetic regulation of the humancentromere. She is a 2023 Goldwater Scholar and received the J.E. Wallace SterlingAward as one of the top 25 students in her graduating class.
Outside of academics, Angelina volunteers with Matriculate, a national nonprofit helpinghigh-achieving, low-income high school students apply to college, where she served asclass of 2023 Head Advising Fellow for the Stanford cohort. She is also an avid harpistwith the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and loves to read/watch sci-fi andAsian-American literature in her free time.
As a Marshall Scholar, Angelina plans to pursue a PhD in Biological Science at theUniversity of Cambridge – MRC-LMB.