Diego joins the lab!

We got a star from the Penn PREP program! Diego Mendez is a postbac student who recently earned his bachelor’s from the University of Puerto Rico and was accepted to Penn’s prestigious PREP program, which is a postbac program for outstanding students who want to prepare more for graduate school before applying. Diego is co-mentored by Andres and Chris Lengner, and is studying colorectal cancer biology using organoid and in vivo models. Score!!