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BUILD PODER program trainee Sayuri Pacheco works in California State University, Northridge (CSUN) professor Thomas Minehan’s organic chemistry lab, doing research synthesizing major groove DNA. Pacheco is a trainee in the BUILD Promoting Opportunities for Diversity in Education and Research (PODER) program, CSUN’s Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program, which is part of the NIH Common Fund’s Diversity Program Consortium..
Vanessa Cisneros