Kenji (Ken) Kaproth was an undergraduate student at Penn majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as part of the class of 2025. He was born in Tokyo, but spent most of his childhood in Washington D.C. At Penn, he is mainly involved in the Penn Catholic Newman Center and Penn Karate. Ken worked in the lab from May 2023 to August 2024 and went on to pursue his M.D. at Columbia University.