John is from Westminster, Colorado and graduated from Regis University, Class of 2023. He received a B.S. in biochemistry with an emphasis on analytical chemistry, as well as a minor in biology. His undergraduate research focused on the kinetics of alkaline phosphatase in E. coli after inducing a double mutation that relaxes a catalytic triad in the enzyme. Graduate school is a goal in the future, either in medicinal chemistry or synthetic organic chemistry. The big question is where and which to study? John is always fixing things in the lab, from pipets to printers and everything in between. When away from the lab, he is either playing video games, cooking, building Lego sets, or attempting to read the multitude of books that he bought over a year ago.