Grace Smith worked in the Chaudhuri lab as an Amgen Scholar, and was stellar. Her hard work led her to co-authorship on a paper published by Dang, Chauhan and colleagues in JCO Precision Oncology in 2020. She went on to be selected as Salutatorian for the University of Maine’s Class of 2020 where she graduated with honors, double-majoring in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Biochemistry with a minor in Computer Science. She is currently a researcher at the NIH.