Brysa Alvarado

Brysa graduated from California State University San Marcos in 2020 with a B.S. in Biochemistry. While at CSUSM, she worked as an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Robert Iafe studying substitution reactions catalyzed by gold(I), strengthening her foundation in synthetic chemistry. In the summer of 2020, she moved to Washington, DC, to begin her Ph.D. in the Chemistry Department at GW, joining Dr. Joseph Meisel’s lab. Her graduate research focuses on organic synthesis and the conformational design of peptidomimetic and foldamer scaffolds to interact with protein targets.