MS. ROSE LI was born in Beijing, China, and immigrated to the US at the age of 9. Rose graduated summa cum laude from Duke University with a BS in chemistry. At Duke, Rose joined the laboratory of Hiroaki Matsunami to study the molecular regulation and genetic basis of smell and taste in mammals and has a related patent. Since matriculating in the MD/PhD Program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, Rose has been working towards her doctoral degree at the Center for Applied Genomics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she is using high sensitivity DNA sequencing techniques to identify genetic markers for organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant rejection. Following graduation from the MD/PhD program, Rose aspires to work as oncologic/transplant surgeon-scientist. This year, Rose was awarded the Paul and Daily Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Nationally, she serves on the Public Relations Committee of the American Physician-Scientist Association and is a Public Health Scholar with the American Medical Student Association. She is currently an intern with the American Transplant Foundation, where she directs the Living Organ Donation Awareness Campaign among university students.