{"id":84,"date":"2016-11-08T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/undergraduate-excellence\/2016\/11\/08\/profiles-kathy-tavakoli\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:23:34","slug":"profiles-kathy-tavakoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/2016\/11\/08\/profiles-kathy-tavakoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles: Kathy Tavakoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-107 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/cropped-image-21.jpeg\" alt=\"cropped-image-21\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/cropped-image-21.jpeg 184w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/cropped-image-21-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SURF fellow Kathy Tavakoli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biology major Kathy Tavakoli (\u201916) loves research. Even while taking eighteen credits every semester, going to the lab is an escape, a relief from the other stress of school. \u00a0She spent last summer indulging in her love of research in the lab of Dr. Keykavous Parang at the School of Pharmacy, and she received funding to do it through OURCA\u2019s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/research-and-institutions\/office-undergraduate-research-creative-activity\/funding-opportunities\/surf-program.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SURF<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109\" style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-109\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/IMG_6116-color.jpg\" alt=\"img_6116-color\" width=\"312\" height=\"208\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy making the synthesized peptide sample ready by removing protecting groups.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SURF is OURCA\u2019s most intensive and comprehensive program. It supports a group of undergraduate students who are pursuing individual research and creative activity in conjunction with full-time faculty mentors. The ambitious fellows also gather twice every week for ten weeks of professional development workshops and faculty research seminars. Kathy spent the summer with SURF researching peptide synthesis as a drug delivery system in cancer cells.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This project was the first she designed entirely herself, down to designing peptides that have never existed before. The goal of the project is to use the peptides as a tool. Kathy narrowed down individual elements in past peptides to find the most promising results. This project is the beginning of what could be a fifteen-year process that ends with practical use in cancer patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/IMG_6209.jpg\" alt=\"img_6209\" width=\"168\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy checking the sample to observe the precipitate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kathy has been working in Dr. Parang\u2019s lab for over a year, after having been referred to him from another faculty member. She read some of his work from the past five years and asked to join his team. Kathy says one of her favorite parts of working there is that the lab is so big, with numerous professors, post-docs, and graduate and undergraduate students. It\u2019s a great incubator for building connections and learning the professional environment. Through SURF this past summer, Kathy got the opportunity to receive funding for work in the same lab in which she had started and to run her own experiment. She was accepted to the master\u2019s program at UCI and began work there in September. 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