Catalina Argandona Lopez recently graduated in the spring of 2022 with a B.S. in Physiology and Neurobiology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was born in La Serena, Chile and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland. For the past 3 summer she has been working in Dr. Amanda Brown’s lab focusing on neuroinflammation and inflammasomes. She recently took her MCAT and is now working as a Research Technologist in the Brown Lab.
Favorite quote: “The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein