Cole Woody is a rising junior at the University of Houston Honors College, studying Biology and minoring in Chemistry. Determined to provide newfound hope, he develops personalized cancer therapies for patients with no existing treatment options at the University of Houston Sequencing Core and MD Anderson Cancer Center. As a former National Institutes of Health (NIH) summer research fellow,   he further developed his interests in cancer vaccines, bioethics, and science policy. As a lead mentor for the American Heart Association Hispanic Serving Institutions Program and the U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program, Cole trains students from underrepresented communities in research. A 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholar, he aspires to become a Physician-Scientist and lead transformative clinical trials in the future. This summer, Cole will explore T-cell costimulatory pathways in Dr. Arlene Sharpe's lab at Harvard Medical School through the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD summer research program. In his downtime, he enjoys Tex-Mex, horror movies, and online gaming.