Research Intern
Cancer Undergraduate Research Education Program
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Conducted independent and collaborative research on polyphenol-derived metabolic biomarkers in human urine under mentorship of Dr. Katie Meyer.
- Executed advanced data analysis in R Studio, harmonizing multi-study metabolomics datasets and performing statistical evaluations.
- Designed translational research workflows to explore relationships between nutrition, metabolism, and cancer outcomes.
- Interpreted high-dimensional metabolomics data to identify significant patterns and evaluate biomarker reliability.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams across nutrition science, epidemiology, and data analysis on research projects.
- Supported grant development through technical writing, data summaries, and project planning.
- Integrated targeted and untargeted metabolomics with comprehensive literature review to enhance research depth.
- Identified a 61% overlap between targeted and untargeted datasets used in downstream analyses.