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Class Notes: 2001

Class of 2001 Jate Samathivathanachai

Jate Samathivathanachai '01 joined Mammoth Biosciences as Senior Vice President of Finance in February 2025. Mammoth is a Berkeley-affiliated biotechnology company focused on leveraging its proprietary ultracompact CRISPR systems to develop potential long-term curative therapies for patients with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.

Class of 2001 Meredith Walters

Meredith Walters '01 just had her debut novel published by SparkPress. The story is based in part on Meredith's experience at Cal and centers on UC Berkeley grad student Frankie Conner, who after multiple failures and several false starts, has finally found her calling: become a neuroscientist, discover the cause of her depression and anxiety, and hopefully find a cure for herself and everyone...

Top image: book cover of "This Animal Body." The cover features a silhouette of a wolf against a purple and blue abstract background. Bottom image: Meredith smiles wearing sleeveless dress and stands outdoors with a scenic, blurred natural landscape in the background.
Class of 2001 Jate Samathivathanachai ’01

Jate Samathivathanachai '01 joined Foundery Innovations, an immunotherapeutics-focused venture fund and studio, as Chief Business Officer in December 2022. Foundery validates and develops early drug concepts to produce pre-IND candidate packages in collaboration with academic investigators that are spun-out into independent NewCos or out-licensed to industry partners for...

Class of 2001 Brad Boyce, M.S. ’98, Ph.D. ’01

Brad Boyce, M.S. ’98, Ph.D. ’01, a Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist, was elected president of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. Brad has been involved in the society for more than two decades, starting as a doctoral student at Cal.

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Class of 2001 2001

Julie Pham has authored 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work (2022), which shows how respect is relative, contradictory, and subjective. “This book will help people specify what they want in terms of respect and help identify what others want,” she wrote. “People can then say, ‘These are my forms of respect. What are...

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