Evan K.
Evan graduated from MIT in 2024 with a 4.8 GPA, majoring in Biology and minoring in History. He received a 522 MCAT score (with a perfect CARS section) for the first time he took the exam, and he plans to attend medical school in 2025. During his gap year, he plans to continue his research on DNA damage and repair at MIT and run his outdoor science program for low-income kids.
Andrea T.
Andrea graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Biology and a minor in Biochemistry. She is now pursing an MD at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in NYC.
Akila
Akila graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 2023 with a degree in human developmental and regenerative biology and an English minor. he will be matriculating at Harvard Medical School.
Patrick
Patrick is currently pursuing an MD as a first year student at Tufts Medical School. He previously graduated with a 3.99/4.00 GPA and a major in Biology at Bucknell University, where he was a member of the varsity soccer team all 4 years.
Emily Sc.
Emily holds a BS in Biology and a BA in Anthropology from Brown University. She received the Fulbright Fellowship to conduct pediatric oncology research in the Netherlands. She then earned her Master's of Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, and has since returned as a medical student.
Bowen
Bowen graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with a joint degree in computer science and statistics. Currently, he works as a researcher in AI for healthcare. He will start a PhD at Stanford in 2024.
Lekhya
Lekhya imajored in Human Physiology at Boston University, where she graduated summa cum laude within three years, and was a member of the Sargent Honor Society. She is currently a first year medical student at Columbia Medical School.
Corinne A.
Corinne is a student at Harvard Medical School in the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program. Previously, she attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, from which she holds a degree in violin performance with minors in music history and chemistry in cooperation with Case Western Reserve University.
Taylor Y.
Taylor is an MD Candidate at Duke University School of Medicine. Previously, she majored in Chemistry with a Neuroscience focus at Bowdoin College.
Claudia
Claudia is a PhD Candidate in biological anthropology the CUNY Graduate Center. She has taught human evolution and anatomy at Harvard, NYU, CUNY Lehman College, and CUNY Hunter College.
Haleigh
Haleigh is a PhD Candidate in Biomedical Sciences at NYU Medical School. She previously earned her BS in General Science from Pennsylvania State University and her MPH in Environmental Health Science at Columbia University.
Claire H.
Claire holds a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Bowdoin College. After working in a pediatric oncology research lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, she is now pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Science at the University of California San Francisco.
Chris R.
Chris is a PhD candidate at MIT’s Computational and Systems Biology Program. He previously earned his bachelor’s degree in cyber engineering with a minor in mathematics from Louisiana Tech University with a 3.96 GPA.
Arielle S.
Arielle majored in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale. She received the Class of 1971 Summer Science Research Fellowship, Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Sciences (twice), and Mellon Senior Research Grant for her research in the transfusion biology and immunology. She is now an MD candidate at the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis.
Joe G.
Joe graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago with a BA in Psychology. He's presently an MD Candidate at Columbia University, pursuing a specialization in psychiatry.
Sanjana K.
Sanjana graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan with a major in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and minors in Music and the Sociology of Health & Medicine. She is now pursuing her MD at the University of Michigan.
Lauren J.
Lauren graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dickinson College with a BS in Environmental Science and a minor in Biology. She obtained her MS in Marine Microbiology from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and is now a PhD candidate in Environmental Molecular Science and Technology at the University of Maryland.
Ryan E.
Ryan completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Cellular and Molecular Biology. She is currently pursuing her PhD thesis research at MIT, where her work is focused on understanding how proliferating cancer cells reprogram metabolism to maintain the metabolic requirements for rapid cell growth and division.
Adrian L.
Adrian attended Caltech where he earned a BS in Physics in 2022. He now attends Harvard as a PhD student in Quantum Science and Engineering. His research focuses on the intersection of quantum chemistry and quantum computing.
Gift
Gift graduated with a 4.0/4.0 GPA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in Honors Biology and obtained a certificate in creative writing. Toting a Dean’s Distinction in research and multiple recognitions in academics, Gift is now an MD candidate at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
James Pa.
James graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University, majoring in Biology and minoring in Portuguese. He is now pursuing his MD at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Valerie N.
Valerie is an artist and scientist who holds a degree in Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, as well as a BA in Art with a concentration in Painting from Yale University. She also holds an MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Kaitlyn L.
Kaitlyn played D1 softball at Stanford, where she majored in Computer Science (3.8/4.0 GPA). Presently, she is an MD-PhD student at Harvard working on her PhD in Bioinformatics.
Brian Do.
Brian is a PhD student at Columbia University studying Chemical Engineering. Previously, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Statistics, and Chemistry, with a minor in Accounting at the University of California San Diego.
Darja
Darja earned her MD/PhD from Harvard/MIT, graduating cum laude. She was a resident in general psychiatry at Yale and is presently a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at LIJ/NUMC in New York.
Lois
Lois earned her BS in Biochemistry, Honors at the University of Texas at Austin. Lois is currently pursuing her MD at Harvard Medical School. Through medicine, Lois aspires to improve the health of rural communities (like the one that raised her).
Fernando
Fernando is a PhD Candidate in Biophysics at Harvard University. Previously, he completed a BS in Applied Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering from John Hopkins University, as well as conducted research in cancer immunotherapy and single-cell microfluidics, earning multiple research awards.
Layla
Layla is an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Writing Seminars and a minor in Islamic Studies. Her post-grad fellowship conducting ovarian cancer research at the National Center for Advancing Translational Science culminated in her choice to pursue a career in medicine.
Eva E.
Eva is currently an MEd Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Previously, she graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University, earning her BA/BS in Child Studies and Medicine, Health, and Society.
Julia Ra.
Julia graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University with a major in cell and molecular biology. She is currently a PhD student at MIT studying the interactions between bacteria and bacteriophages, which are the viruses that infect bacteria.
Sara AZ
Sara is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. She is also pursuing a dual degree in Master in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she graduated summa cum laude from Miami University.
Amy S.
Amy graduated with a BS in Cognitive Science from Yale University, magna cum laude. She now attends Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She hopes to develop new therapies and treatments for individuals with neurological disorders.
Mary S.
Mary is a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and an incoming Stanford dermatology resident. She received her MD degree from Yale School of Medicine and her BS in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Yale University.
Wilton
Wilton is pursuing an MD at Yale School of Medicine (expected graduation in 2026). Previously, he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Xavier
Xavier graduated from Yale College in 2019 with a BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. During the summers, he researched Type II Diabetes at Yale Medical School and HIV at Harvard Medical School. Currently, he is pursuing a Neuroscience PhD at Columbia University.
Rhea T.
Rhea majored in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University, where she completed her thesis research on studying the effects of m6A RNA modifications on blood system development and leukemia. She is currently an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School in the Pathways Program and is passionate about improving mental health care and resources.
Yen
Yen majored in Biology with a minor in Chemistry and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with a 3.93 GPA. Currently, she is a DMD candidate at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and is passionate about reducing oral health inequities.
Tara Z.
Tara graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a degree in Biology. She's presently a dental student at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Cyrus A.
Cyrus is currently a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School in the MD-PhD program. Previously, he graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Erika N.
Erika earned a BS in Biology, specializing in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics, at Stony Brook University; she graduated summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa She is currently pursuing an MD/PhD in Cancer Immunology through the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Simone
Simone graduated summa cum laude from Barnard. She holds a Master of Public Health from aColumbia, and is currently pursuing an MD at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tarun
Tarun studied Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Bioengineering at MIT, where he completed both his BS and MEng in four years. He is now pursuing an MD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Program.
Arielle
Arielle is pursuing her MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Prior to medical school, she attended Columbia University for her BS in Biology and worked in a lab studying the genetics of chronic kidney diseases.
Corinne
Corinne earned her BS in Chemical Engineering and her MS in Systems Engineering from MIT. She received several fellowships to do research abroad, and her work was supported by USAID. Currently, she is an MD student at Tufts.
Pooja D.
Pooja studied Biological Sciences & Psychology at Cornell University before attending Weill Cornell Medical College. Presently, she's a pediatric neurology resident at Lurie Children's Hospital.
Andre
Andre earned his BA in Integrative Biology and Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard, where he was on the Men's Rowing Team. After two years conducting research at UC San Francisco, he is now an MD student at Harvard Medical School.
Lydia
Lydia studied Molecular Biology and Global Health at Princeton, graduating summa cum laude with the Molecular Biology Thesis Prize. She's now pursuing her MD at Washington University in St. Louis.
Marine-Ayan
Marine earned her BA in Biology with a minor in Spanish from Cornell (Phi Beta Kappa). She is now a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Phoebe
Phoebe is an MD student at the UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program. Previously, she earned her MSc in Health and Human Sciences at UC Berkeley and her BA in English from Haverford College.
Eduardo
Eduardo earned his BS in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from MIT (Phi Beta Kappa, 4.9/5.0 GPA). He is currently pursuing his MD/PhD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Program.
Miriam
Miriam is a PhD student in Immunology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She holds a joint BA/BS in Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering (Stern College/Columbia).
Nikki
Nikki holds a BS and MS in Chemistry from Yale, where she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and with the Werner Bergmann Prize, awarded annually to the outstanding senior in the chemistry department. After earning her MD at the Icahn School of Medicine, she is now a pediatrics resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center.
Mickey
Mickey is an MD/MPH candidate at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. He holds a BA in Biochemistry and English (Drake) and an MS in Narrative Medicine (Columbia).
Tania
Tania is an MD/PhD candidate at Stanford. She holds a BA in Human Developmental & Regenerative Biology from Harvard, and earned an MS in Medical Anthropology and is finishing an MS in Oncology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
Rocco
Rocco is an MD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He earned his BA in Engineering Sciences with a minor in Spanish from Dartmouth (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude).
Denice
Denice is pursuing her MD at Columbia University VP&S. She earned her BA in Biological Basis of Behavior (Neuroscience) from UPenn. In the year before med school, she traveled across East Asia and taught English in Qingdao.
Sophia
Sophia is pursuing her MD at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she attended UC Boulder on a full merit scholarship and as a Presidents Leadership Class Scholar, and earned a BS and MS in Integrative Physiology.
O'Jay
O'Jay is an MD/PhD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He graduated with Honors from CUNY-John Jay College with a BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology and minor in Philosophy.
Manasa
Manasa is an MD student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her BA in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude).
Kaylee
Kaylee is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at MIT. Previously, she earned a BSE in Chemical Engineering at the University of Iowa, and spent a summer in Huntsville, Alabama working at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Emily Me.
Emily is a fifth year doctoral candidate in clinical science and member of the Biopsychosocial Effects of Stigma (BEST) Lab at Harvard. Previously, Emily graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College, where she majored in Psychology and was awarded the Ross-Lieberman Prize.
James
James earned his MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, his MPP at the Harvard Kennedy School, and his BS in Chemistry at Brown. He is an Emergency Medicine Resident at Boston University Medical Center.
Pooja S.
Pooja earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and her MS in Engineering Management from UW-Madison. Most recently, she ran a corporate-backed accelerator for insurance-focused startups.
Maha
Maha is a PhD candidate at Harvard. Previously, she earned her MS in Engineering (MIT) and her BS in in Computer Science & Molecular Biology (MIT), and worked as a researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Nick
Nick received his BA in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Genetics, Genomics, and Development from Cornell (Phi Beta Kappa). He is now pursuing a dual MD/PhD in the Harvard-MIT joint program
Justin
Justin earned his BA in Math with a minor in Computer Science at Boston College. After spending a few years working as a web developer, he moved to New York, where he is now an MBA candidate at NYU.
Arvind
Arvind holds a BS in Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and an MA in Engineering in EECS from MIT. He has worked at Amazon, D.E. Shaw Research, and most recently at BenevolentAI.
Matty
Matty earned a JD from Harvard Law. He graduated magna cum laude from Amherst with a BA in Geology. He has experience as a tax attorney working in corporate law in New York.
Dan
Dan is an MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School. He earned his BA in Cognitive Science at Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa), where his thesis earned the Angier award.
Jeff
Jeff is an MS candidate in Computer Science at NYU, concentrating on Machine Learning. He graduated from Columbia with a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Jackie
Jackie is an MD student at NYU School of Medicine. She earned her BA in Neuroscience and English and was the managing editor of her college newspaper at the University of Miami (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Emma
Emma is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School, currently doing clinical research through a fellowship at Mass General Hospital. She earned her BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Muriel
Muriel is an MD student at the NYU School of Medicine. She earned her BA in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry with a minor in Global Health from Middlebury College.
Nikita
Nikita earned her BA in Biomedical Engineering at Tufts (summa cum laude, Tau Beta Pi) and her MD at Boston University. She is now a senior resident at the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics.
Michael
Michael graduated summa cum laude and with College Honors from Louisiana State University with a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Economics. As a Phi Kappa Phi Fellow, Michael received an MPhil in Health, Medicine, and Society from the University of Cambridge. He's currently pursuing his MD at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Max
After graduating Valedictorian of his high school class, Max earned his BA in Philosophy at Columbia. He is currently an MD/PhD candidate at Columbia, conducting his doctoral research in systems neuroscience.
Joseph
Joe is a PhD candidate in the Biological Sciences in Public Health at Harvard. He earned his BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and his MS in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Francisco State.
Santiago
Santiago graduated from UT Austin with dual honors degrees in the Humanities and Biochemistry. After spending a summer at NIH, he went on to complete an MPhil in Chemistry at Cambridge, and he is now an MD/PhD candidate at UPenn.
Abubakar
Abubakar graduated from MIT with a BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received the prestigious Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, which is funding his research as a PhD student at Stanford.
Claire
Claire earned her BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology from Yale University. After earning her MD at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she is now a Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery at Yale.
Mac
Mac holds an MD from Boston University School of Medicine. He earned a BA in Political Science and Biochemistry at Middlebury and an MA in Political Science at Boston College. Currently, he is an anesthesiology resident at UPenn.