09/10/2026
Meet sophomore chemical and biomolecular engineering major Alanis Velez! This summer, Alanis was a research intern at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University through their Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Baltimore, Maryland. She worked in the lab of Dr. Konstantinos Konstantopoulos studying how mechanical cues in the tumor microenvironment drive cancer cell migration and metastasis, with applications in designing therapeutic targets for aggressive cancers. Well done, Alanis!