Cayden joined TDG in 2023 as a Technology fellow. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA in Professor Dino DiCarlo’s group. After receiving his B.S. from UC Berkeley, Cayden spent two years at a single-cell sequencing startup before beginning grad school. His current research is focused on creating platforms to accelerate synthetic biology workflows used in biomanufacturing. He expects to graduate in 2024 and make the jump to industry.
Anita Torossian
Anita joined TDG in November 2023 as a Technology Fellow. She is a neuroscience PhD candidate in the Adhikari Lab at UCLA, where she investigates the neural circuits of fear learning and anxiety. Anita received her B.A. in neuroscience and psychology from CUNY Queens College in 2017, and conducted post-baccalaureate research at the NIH on brain metabolism in autism-like disorders. At TDG, Anita will work closely with patent applications and convey the impact of their technologies to facilitate licensing opportunities.
