Liya Mooradian is a Ph.D. student in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she works in the Kalogriopoulos Lab engineering GPCR signaling for novel therapeutic applications. She graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Genetics and a certificate in Science Communication. During her undergraduate studies, she was actively involved on campus, serving as a Resident Assistant and organic chemistry tutor, and completed summer research internships at the University of Pennsylvania and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Her research interests include precision medicine, immunology, cell therapy, and cancer.
Liya recently joined the UW–Madison McNair Scholars Program as a STEM Program Assistant. She is excited to support McNair scholars and help make the path to graduate school more approachable. Outside of academia, she enjoys cooking and baking, drumming, indoor and outdoor rock climbing, thrifting, making art, playing board games, and traveling. She also enjoys spending time with her two cats.