Rose Miyatsu | UCSC Science | June 7, 2021
Undergraduate Sneha Jariwala came to UC Santa Cruz shortly after her sister passed away from leukemia. Motivated by this tragic loss, Sneha has used her time as a student to participate in cancer activism, fundraising, and research. Her project, “Molecular Classification of Pediatric High-Risk Leukemias Using Expression Profiles of Multimodally Expressed Genes” recently received one of the Physical and Biological Science Division’s prestigious Chancellor’s Awards.
Please tell us about your experience at UC Santa Cruz.
I entered UCSC a few months after my sister passed away from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, and UCSC was my place to heal. I joined Colleges Against Cancer and was able to express my ideas about cancer activism and grow as a cancer activist. I also joined Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, a research group that allowed me to develop my passion for childhood cancer research. I graduated in Winter with a BS in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology!
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