Name: Olivia Colace
Class Year: 2025
Major: Linguistics
Hometown: Los Altos, CA
Internship Organization: Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Job Title: Intern
Location: Stanford, CA
What's happening at your internship? We would love to hear what kind of work you are doing!
I’m interning for a clinical hematopathologist, which is a doctor who specializes in diagnosing blood-related diseases and disorders. My boss, in particular, is an expert in lymphoma and leukemia. My research project focuses on the expression of a particular biomarker in a type of lymphoma called follicular lymphoma. This work involves collecting and sorting tissue samples, subsequently building tissue assays, examining this tissue assay under the microscope, computational analysis, and finally, writing a paper to be published in a scientific journal. I also built a tissue assay that will be used in other research projects that are investigating the variants of another type of lymphoma. Some days I work in the hospital in the pathology department and others, I’ll be at the lab. And I’m always reading papers!
Why did you apply for this internship?
I was introduced to my boss Yaso Natkunam ’87, by another ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø alum, Isabel Cunningham ’68. I thought that we clicked well, and