<br/>[[File:536817 10152014407782835 559860899 n.jpg|thumb|536817 10152014407782835 559860899 n.jpg]]<span style="font-size:small;">Jonathan is a University Innovation Fellow and Senior Biological Sciences major at the University of Notre Dame working to expand innovation and entrepreneurship on campus, targeting non-traditional areas of study for innovation and entrepreneurship. Beginning a research career early in his high school years studying the evolution of epithelial sodium channel subunits in the brain, Jonathan's interests shifted to stem cell research after a scarring surfing accident during his research stint in the Canary Islands, Spain.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">From his matriculation at Notre Dame and joining a stem cell laboratory, he realized that the future of science and medicine lies beyond the traditional, single scientist centered model, and instead must embrace a team-based, highly collaborative model to continue to make breakthroughs at the pace the field has become accustomed to.</span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span class="s1">Jonathan joined the UIF program with the dream of creating an all-inclusive environment for undergraduate students to coordinate innovative, large scale entrepreneurial projects. Through UIF, he hopes to gain the skills required to create infrastructure and curricular changes to foster this type of cross-disciplinary thinking that will shape science and medicine in the future.</span></span>
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