Ale Castruita

Ale joined the Yokoyama Lab through a post-baccalaureate NIH-funded fellowship, where she studied clinico-pathologically interesting cases of Alzheimer's disease. She developed a fascination for identifying a genetic relationship to disease through her very first undergrad research experience at the Health Equity Research Lab at San Francisco State University, where she examined the ancestral linkage between triple-negative breast cancer and African Ancestry. In fall 2022, she completed her master’s degree in Cell and Molecular Biology through a San Francisco State University—University of California San Francisco joint program.