Joshua Cheung
B.S.  |  Junior Specialist
joshukc2@uci.edu

I joined the Sajjadi Lab in the Fall quarter of 2023 as an undergraduate research assistant through the Bio 199 program. I am also currently working in Dr. Hirohito Ichii’s lab which has a focus on transplant surgery of the pancreas. I am currently planning to graduate from UCI with a B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Spring quarter of 2024. My work in the lab primarily involves processing speech data for use in machine learning which can detect dementia early. I also aid in the processing of biomarker data obtained from the blood samples of adults with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and dementia-related pathologies. I plan to pursue either a PharmD or an M.D. in the future. After graduation, I took on the role of Junior Specialist.