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Reiko Usami is a fourth year student at the University of Washington Bothell, with a major in Culture, Literature and the Arts and an emphasis on creative writing. In November of 2013 during National Novel Writing Month, she introduced a group of scientific geniuses known as the Aucht to her on-going series of novels; it is to better understand and create a more realistic view of the various fields specialized by each student within that group that Reiko decided to take part in the Seminar in Biology class. Her interest in cancer treatments come from a more personal point; in July of 2017, after a nine month battle with melanoma that was unnoticed up until October, her mother Nancy Ufkes died. Hopes for better treatments for cancer drives her to go for this project.

January 2018