Yuri Laguna Terai was born in Spain. Since childhood, she has been fancy about the mysteries in biology and life science. She decided to pursue a biology major in her undergraduate. During her undergraduate study, Yuri scored a 3.9 GPA with fruitful experience of extracurricular activities including volunteer experiences and paid jobs such as working in the school cafeteria. Having a family member who was diagnosed with colon cancer, she became more interested in disease early diagnostics and health surveillance. By being a part of Complete Omics she hopes to integrate multi-omics clinical applications to the diagnosis of cancers and other ailments. Her role in Complete Omics is to focus on the development of a clinical proteomics-based diagnostics pipeline.

Raj Purohit, a double major in chemical engineering and biology, has experience in cell culture, protein expression, and diagnostic assays. His parents moved to Maryland from India and then moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he was born. When he was four, he moved to Cockeysville, Maryland, and has stayed since. With a large passion for STEM, especially in biotechnology, he has studied and participated in a large variety of different projects in biotechnology developments with numerous labs. He works with Complete Omics to develop cutting-edge technologies for mass spectrometry-based biomarker detection.

Christopher Adewole is working with Complete Omics as a Bioinformatician. He is an undergraduate student attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and double-majoring in Biochemical Engineering and Bioinformatics/Computational Biology. In addition to his part-time work with Complete Omics, Chris serves as a Peer Tutor for student-athletes, an Exam Proctor, and as a Residential Assistant on campus. Chris’ work at Complete Omics is centered around engineering automated protein data retrieval tools and methods. The goal of this research is to design a tool that will expedite data-collection towards proteomics research and to develop a template for the research and implementation of scoring heuristics to identify the most viable proteins for clinical trials based on peptide structure and uniqueness. Chris is excited to explore computer science applications towards clinical research and hopes to uncover new possibilities for chemical engineering approaches to bioinformatics and vice versa.

Parth Parikh is interested in the interactions of the immune system with pathogens, the development of cancer, and potential treatments/cures. This curiosity drove him to pursue medical school after college. He aspires to become an orthopedic surgeon and serves in the US Navy as a medical officer in a few years. His passion for helping others has never been stronger, and he hopes to do so while he is a part of Complete Omics. With his work on developing novel diagnostics methods, he hopes to help improve current technologies in diagnostics.

Stanley Wang, an undergraduate from UMBC, major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Economics, and minoring in entrepreneurship.  In 2019, Stanley was selected to participate in The Shattuck Family Internship Program for Entrepreneurship Innovation and Social Change, which funds and places highly-motivated students from diverse backgrounds in internships to better prepare them to launch start-ups or nonprofits. Stanley showed interests, and after interviews, joined Complete Omics. Stanley created an automatic pipeline for mass spectrometry method building with a minimal amount of human intervention. He had been dedicated to his work, which had facilitated an important clinical project including the method build for over 10,000 protein biomarkers.