Arizona College Prep High senior and 2024 KEYS Alum Jishnu Nayak is one of the 20 2025 Flinn Scholars, a prestigious scholarship that supports students enrolling in one of Arizona's three state universities

BASIS Phoenix senior and 2023 KEYS Alum Adam Bedeir is one of 10 2025 Flinn Scholars – some of the highest achieving high school seniors from across the state – who will attend the University of Arizona in the fall.

In early April, KEYS alumni took center stage at the annual Behind BIO5 community event, showcasing their research during a poster showcase.

Sixty-six outstanding Arizona students from 35 high schools have been accepted into the 7-week research program set to begin in June, with the addition of an inaugural Phoenix cohort.

Four KEYS alumni are among the 36 Arizona high school seniors to advance to the final stage of the 2025 Flinn Scholarship selection process.

From an enthusiastic high school intern to a first-year graduate student, local Tucsonan Susan Burrell is forging her path in biomedical engineering and health care innovation.

Growing up in Vail, Zachary Boydell pushed himself out of his comfort zone to apply for the KEYS Research Internship and discover a passion for neuroscience that led him to attend the University of Arizona.

Phoenix-born Tej Desai grew his computational skills during the KEYS Research Internship to help him advance his goals of working at the intersection of medicine and innovation.

2018 KEYS alum Alexis Cruickshank-Taylor is part of the Integrative Scholars Training Program where she is working with Wei Wang from the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy to design molecules that more effectively target murine double minute 2 (MDM2) activity for acute myeloid leukemia therapy.

Local Tucsonan Mariam Rana found the confidence through the KEYS Research Internship to champion research experiences for fellow undergraduate students at the University of Arizona.