Nathalie Fuentes

Nathalie Fuentes is originally from Puerto Rico. She is a Senior in Biochemistry with a minor in Linguistics at Iowa State University. Her interest in research started at a very early age.  She has conquered several obstacles in life including language barriers.  She has made significant discoveries in her lab, leading to a publication in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. She has a total of six research internships in places such as Harvard Medical School, Penn State College of Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, and Iowa State University. She has experience working with leukemia, glaucoma, methanobactin, albinism and drug metabolism at a biochemical and molecular level. Nathalie Fuentes has been recognized for her accomplishments, with awards such as the 2013 and 2014 HENAAC Best Scientific Poster Award, 2014 Outstanding First Year McNair Scholar, 2014 Latinos Unidos Scholarhip and is a 2014 Collegian of Innovation and Leadership Finalist. She has leadership roles in the iResearch Club and SHPE Organization. Recently, she received the "Excellence in Mentoring" Award by the IINSPIRE-LSAMP Program. Currently, she is applying to Graduate School to study the mechanism of human diseases.