Marissa Howard is a senior honors student studying Bioengineering with a Signals and Systems Concentration. Throughout her undergraduate career, Marissa has worked on projects relating energy and environmental policy solutions on campus, developing point of care diagnostics for infections diseases, and tutoring lower level undergraduates in the life sciences. As one of the founders of the student organization Roosevelt@Mason, she has extensive experience with the intersection of science and technologies’ role in public policy on campus and abroad. She has also been in undergraduate researcher at the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine. At CAPMM she has worked towards learning electrochemical properties of hydrogel nanoparticles to develop rapid point of care diagnostics for a variety of infectious diseases. In the future, Marissa hopes to continue working in the fields of molecular diagnostics and nanotechnology.

Sameen is a Bioengineering senior with a concentration in Biohealthcare Informatics. Sameen is interested in design and implementation of point-of-care diagnostic tools in conflict-prone, low-resource areas. She is passionate about achieving universal access to healthcare, driving social change, and fighting for human rights through entrepreneurship and innovation. She has studied and worked in the areas of global health, health policy, low-cost sensors, and social entrepreneurship.

Rohit Madhu is a Bioengineering senior with a concentration in Healthcare Informatics. Rohit is passionate about technology and its intersection with medicine; he enjoys this synthesis between the two disciplines because of its hands-on approach to problem solving. Moreover, he is interested in the business, legal, and ethical perspectives in the developing Biomedical Engineering sphere. Rohit earnestly believes in the quote attributed to Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize Laureate, "study what interests you in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible".

Sara Sharif, Bioengineering senior with a concentration in Signal and Systems. She has a passion for biology, because it strives to understand the unique intricacy of life and the mechanisms that support the planet we call home. Moreover, engineering allows her to tap into her creative side in order to build novel solutions to problems that exist not only in the medical field, but in other aspects of life. Sara sees herself tackling biomedical issues as a researcher in either a private firm, academic setting, or a governmental body.