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Richelle Gao '27 has been awarded a $10,000 Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute Scholar award for her summer research project, "Biomarker-Driven Diagnostic Modeling to Complement Urine Cytology in Urothelial Carcinoma" under the mentorship of Dr. Bineyam Taye (internal faculty sponsor) and Dr. Jia Yu Rao (external faculty sponsor at UCLA).February 26, 2026