Afra graduated from Colorado State University in 2025 with a B.S. in Biomedical Science concentrating in Anatomy and Physiology, as well as a minor in Microbiology. She spent the past few years working on canine cancer research, focusing on molecular techniques and sample processing. She later worked in the Serkova Lab at CU Anschutz, where she focused on imaging studies using mouse models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and breast cancer metastasis, gaining experience with IVIS and MRI data collection.

Afra joined the Bonetto Lab in 2025. She hopes to continue developing her in vivo and cell based skills while contributing to research on cancer related cachexia.

Afra's contact is: afra.bushara@cuanschutz.edu