Angelina Chan, from Long Grove, Illinois, is completing an M.S. in Biology at Stanford
University, where she recently graduated with a B.S. with Honors and Distinction in
Human Biology and minors in Chemistry and English. Angelina started college at 16
years old as a Provost Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She
has been conducting genetics research ever since transferring to Stanford her
sophomore year — from her honors thesis on coevolved adaptation to K1 killer toxin in
budding yeast, to her current work studying epigenetic regulation of the human
centromere. She is a 2023 Goldwater Scholar and received the J.E. Wallace Sterling
Award as one of the top 25 students in her graduating class.

Outside of academics, Angelina volunteers with Matriculate, a national nonprofit helping
high-achieving, low-income high school students apply to college, where she served as
class of 2023 Head Advising Fellow for the Stanford cohort. She is also an avid harpist
with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and loves to read/watch sci-fi and
Asian-American literature in her free time.

As a Marshall Scholar, Angelina plans to pursue a PhD in Biological Science at the
University of Cambridge - MRC-LMB.