Joy Chen

Program: Undergrad

Awards and honors: 2020 Health Make-a-Thon Winner, 2020 Illinois Homecoming Court Representative, Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Research Scholar Award, Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research Award, Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship, Engineering Achievement Scholarship

Favorite university memory: Some of my favorite memories come from doing undergraduate research over the past four years! I have had incredible opportunities to present and publish my work, as well as learn from great mentors and students. Between challenging myself with new projects, meeting new researchers who share the same passion as me, and making friends with other students in my lab, I have thoroughly enjoyed my time doing research at Illinois.

Immediate future plans: I will be pursuing my PhD at UC Berkeley/UCSF's Joint Bioengineering program.

I want to give a special shout out to: I want to give a special shoutout to my parents who have supported me immensely on my journey so far, my younger brother who reminds me to have fun in the midst of all the homework, all my wonderful friends who I’ve made great memories with over the last four years, and of course all of the faculty and staff within the Bioengineering Department as well as the Grainger College of Engineering as a whole who have made my experience at Illinois a very memorable one.