Iris Research
Our Team
Meet the people behind the project!
Lucas Yeung
Co-founder, President
Lucas is a motivated 11th grader at Burlingame High School, having conducted research internships at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. He has x his opinion piece on education and scientific research as abstracts and research articles in top journals.
He is committed to an academic and career journey in STEM to uplift disadvantaged and driven science students and advance breakthrough science and innovation to facilitate a better world.
Benjamin Lu
Co-Founder, VP of Outreach - South Bay
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Lucas Kim
Vice President, Strategy & Operations
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Jocelyn Yeung
Vice President, Communications & Marketing
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Jayden White
Vice President of Outreach - East Bay
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Our Advisors
Professor David Schaffer,
University of California, Berkeley
David Schaffer is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also serves as the Director of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center and the Director of QB3-Berkeley. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1993. Afterward, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. also in Chemical Engineering in 1998 with Professor Doug Lauffenburger, while minoring in Molecular and Cell Biology. Finally, he conducted a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Fred Gage at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA, before moving to UC Berkeley in 1999.
[Source: https://schafferlab.berkeley.edu/]
Professor Su Guo
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Dr. Guo has a broad background in molecular biology, genetics, developmental biology, neurobiology, and is interested in the molecular genetic mechanisms that regulate brain development and function. As a graduate student at Cornell University, she employed the invertebrate model organism C. elegans, and made significant contributions to the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) as well as understanding of asymmetric cell divisions. After graduation, she became fascinated with how the brain works. As a research and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and Genentech Inc., respectively, she carried out neurobiological studies of the development of brain neurotransmitter systems, using the vertebrate genetic model organism zebrafish. After establishing her independent research lab at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Guo has continued to study the molecular genetics of neural development and has expanded her research into the understanding of behavior. With her research, Dr. Guo strives to make significant contributions to our basic understanding of the brain and the mind, as well as to help treat neuropsychiatric disorders.
[Source: https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/su-guo]
Noem Noiwangklang
MS, Co-Lead, Innovation Discovery & Director of Workforce Development, QB3
Noem has been working in biology and biotechnology at Berkeley for 18 years and overall at UC for 24 years, including biological research, lab operations, and company startup. Through her work at QB3, she runs several programs to help the 35 startup biotechnology companies at Bakar Labs, the largest university owned and operated biotech incubator in the country. In addition, she has co-founded two companies that are advancing gene and cell therapies to the clinic. She has since provided the companies extensive operational support, including professional development, HR, finance, and lab operations.
[Source: https://bakarlabs.berkeley.edu/about/]
Professor Bingwei Lu
Stanford University
Dr. Lu’s research focuses on uncovering fundamental mechanisms underlying the development, function, and maintenance of the nervous system. His project aims to provide insight into the mechanism of how the evolutionarily conserved Notch signaling pathway acts in a non-canonical manner to regulate neural stem cell homeostasis. This work will enable a deeper understanding of the development and maintenance of the nervous system and inform the development of novel therapy for brain tumors and a range of neurological conditions where altered Notch signaling has been implicated.
[Source: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/about-funding/javits-award/javits-award-winners/bingwei-lu]
