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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings BMSC Grad Program faculty,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I hope this message finds you well. The Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program is excited to announce the incoming PhD cohort for 2025. As part of their first-year training, all incoming PhD students are required
to complete three lab rotations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3">Do you have an opening for a Biomed Sci PhD student as their mentor? Their first year is full funded by the program.
<i>PIs would begin support starting Summer 2026.<o:p></o:p></i></li></ol>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><b>Which quarter are you willing to have a student rotate?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph">Yes_________ ; No___________; Quarter_____________<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3">If you do not have space for a graduate student, do you have availability in your lab for technical rotations? If so which quarter?<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph">Yes_________ ; No___________; Quarter_____________<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">The 2025 PhD Cohort:</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">Jocelyn Alfaro</span></b><span style="color:black">, MS, CSU Los Angeles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">Denzel Cardenas</span></b><span style="color:black">, MS, UC Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">Neil Fernandes</span></b><span style="color:black">, MS, UC San Diego<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">Ellie Pettijohn</span></b><span style="color:black">, BS, Vanguard Univ. of Southern California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">Dan Tran</span></b><span style="color:black">, BS, UC Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Starting July 1, these five students will be on-campus for the new student orientation and the beginning of their summer lab rotation.
</span><b>You may begin receiving email inquiries about lab rotation openings for the summer and the academic year in the coming weeks.</b> We are encouraging students to reach out directly to faculty. We are also working with the students to have them complete
lab safety training by the start of the summer. Students will begin their first-year curriculum on August 4.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Seema<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Seema Kaushalya Tiwari-Woodruff, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><br>
Professor, Division of Biomedical Sciences</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Director, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">School of Medicine, University of California Riverside<br>
Rm 3140, Multidisciplinary Research Building<br>
900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521<br>
Office #: (951) 827-7819<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:seema.tiwari-woodruff@medsch.ucr.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">seema.tiwari-woodruff@medsch.ucr.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/medschool.ucr.edu/faculty_research/faculty_profiles/bio.html?page=tiwari-woodruff_seema.html__;!!OLyWHuc!SCZj2gtRVlkp4ig5lijlBwqoaHTACw6GLUywqKU3QERd8GVcAelheM1mdcqlWtzZ7VeVBF0v7umHcdcBVIFQMCj_Nr-OVfK1gbzhkw$" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://medschool.ucr.edu/faculty_research/faculty_profiles/bio.html?page=tiwari-woodruff_seema.html</span></a><br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_seema-2Dtiwari-2Dwoodruff-2D3164a23_&d=DwMFaQ&c=LsLxleeqPm1pgCNn-PN_bQ&r=EvZYZ_YpN_uXFMRvIwq0EbMPYXbncjwNPQB1qU8kNOqLHJ5XqfdZI2CI1LT21M14&m=VlUBw5SlHcp6OIItTcTTmjz_fbpi-ccupbt6Rf7RRAg&s=vwnBH7vE6uq20dg57AHFECL2c0q0F7R8gwf4uUBm7Qs&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.linkedin.com/in/seema-tiwari-woodruff-3164a23/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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