Christine
After graduating with a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience in 2017, Christine studied novel therapeutics for HIV treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is now an MD-PhD candidate at the University of California, San Francisco where she is studying neuro-infectious diseases.
Zoë
Zoë majored in Neuroscience with a double minor in Spanish and Global Health at UCLA. She graduated summa cum laude and earned highest departmental honors in neuroscience. She is now an incoming MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at UCSF.
Stephanie M.
Stephanie graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Notre Dame. She is now pursuing her MD at Harvard Medical School.
Nikole
Nikole studied Chemistry at Davidson College, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is now pursuing her PhD in biology at MIT.
Anchith
Anchith graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a dual major in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Social Policy Analysis. He is currently pursuing an MD at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Priscilla
Priscilla is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Dental Medicine (DMD) at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is a Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) recipient in the US Army and will serve as dentist in the Army after completing her dental degree.
Cal
Cal graduated cum laude from the University of Connecticut with a BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow during her PhD in Biological Anthropology at City University of New York, and was an NSF-funded Postdoctoral Researcher at Arizona State University’s Center for Evolution and Medicine.
Varun
Varun graduated from Princeton summa cum laude with a degree in neuroscience. He is currently an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and will be graduating in 2025.
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.
Doug
Doug has enrolled in the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP), where he will earn an MS in Health and Medical Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2026 and an MD from UC San Francisco in 2029. He also holds a BA in Neurobiology from the College of Wooster.
Annelise
Annelise holds an MD from Columbia and a BA in Biology from Harvard. She is now an intern in her transitional year at Beth Israel Brockton Hospital, after which she will train at the University of California San Francisco for her dermatology residency.
Richard L.
Richard majored in Biology and minored in English at Emory University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. After taking a year off to focus on research full-time, he is now pursuing an MD as part of Harvard Medical School’s Pathways program.
Sadia
Sadia holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. After graduating, she spent two years working in global health advocacy and policy work. Currently, she is pursuing an MD-PhD at UCSF.
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.
Vivian
Vivian earned a double major in Cognitive Science and Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology at Yale University. She is currently an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School.
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. She will be matriculating at Harvard Medical School.
Darrell
Darrell attended Purdue University, where she earned her BS in Physics, Mathematics, and Statistics and graduated with honors and Phi Beta Kappa. She is now a PhD candidate in Biophysics at Harvard University.
Andrew Y.
Andrew graduated cum laude from Harvard with a Bachelor of Science degree in Bioengineering, a minor in Neurobiology, and a language citation in Mandarin Chinese. He is now a third year student at Weill Cornell Medical College, and will pursue a Master's of Engineering in biomedical engineering before graduating from medical school.
Rienna
Rienna is pursuing a PhD in Epidemiology and MS in Biostatistics at Harvard. Previously, she attended Johns Hopkins University, where she majored in Public Health and Cognitive Science.
Emma La.
Emma is a PhD Candidate in Psychology at Harvard University. She holds an MA in Psychology form Harvard and a BSc in Biology from the University of St Andrews.
Andrew R.
Andrew is an MSc Candidate in Neuroscience at McGill University. Previously, he earned a BA in Biological Sciences at Cornell, graduating magna cum laude.
Rochelle
Rochelle graduated from Barnard College, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a major in Neuroscience & Behavior. Currently, Rochelle is on her second of two gap years, keeping busy as a Research Assistant in Mount Sinai’s cardiovascular surgery department and as a volunteer EMT in Brooklyn. She eagerly anticipates starting her medical education at a T20 program this fall.
Asli
Asli is currently a dental student at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She graduated summa cum laude from Stony Brook University with a BS in Biology & Developmental Genetics and a minor in Health, Medicine, and Society.
Ahmed
Ahmed earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a minor in Inequality Studies from Cornell University. He is currently an MD student specializing in Community Health and Informatics & Data-Driven Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine.
Jessika
Jessika is an MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School and MIT, researching deep learning applications in drug discovery. She previously graduated summa cum laude from WashU on a full-ride scholarship where she studied Computational Biology with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Andrew L.
Andrew is a current DMD candidate at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Previously, he pursued his undergraduate studies at the College of the Holy Cross, where he graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Biology.
Neetij
Neetij graduated from St. Olaf College with a major in Biology and a minor in Biochemistry. He developed a love of research as an NIH IRTA fellow and as a scholar within the Fulbright US Student program, and he is now pursuing an MD at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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.
Suraj
graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Computational Biology and completed Postbac research in the IRTA program at the NIH. Currently, Suraj is a first-year medical student at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Rebecca L.
Rebecca is in the highly selective joint 5-year BS/MPH program at Yale University with a BS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS). She graduated from Yale College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Karl
Karl double majored in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Japanese Studies at Middlebury College. After graduating summa cum laude, he became a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo where he developed tools for cell imaging.
Bayan
Bayan is currently pursuing her Master’s in Population Health Sciences at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar. She previously graduated from Yale University in May 2023 with a double major in Molecular Biology and Global Affairs and a minor in Global Health Studies.
Harry D.
Harry graduated from the University of Richmond as the valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA (Phi Beta Kappa) and four first-authored publications. Finding medical research inescapable, he is getting a combined MD/PhD degree at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, desiring to pursue orthopedics surgery with research in targeted drug delivery.
Crystal
Crystal graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Public Health Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. She recently moved to Long Island to pursue a 3 year accelerated MD program at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine.
Paul S.
Paul graduated as a Merrill Presidential Scholar from Cornell University's College of Human Ecology in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology, Health, and Society. He is pursuing his MD at the University of Pennsylvania.
Humberto
Humberto is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of South Florida and Section Head of Thoracic Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center. He holds and MD from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (summa cum laude).
Ziad
Ziad earned a degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). He is currently working at biotech startup Atias Pharma in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with plans to pursue his MD at the University of Pennsylvania next.
Clara B.
Clara holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia. She is now an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School.
Sonya G.
Sonya holds a BA in Biological Sciences and a BA in Russian from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MA in Regional Studies from Harvard. She's pursuing her MD at Stanford.
Mike K.
Mike holds an MEd in Science Education and a BA in Romance Languages and Literature from Harvard University. He has taught bilingual middle school science in Boston area classrooms.
Ben S.
Ben pursued a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and a Doctorate in Dental Surgery at the University of Michigan in a Dentist-Scientist Training Program (DSTP) supported by a fellowship from the federal government. He’s now pursuing a clinical residency in periodontal surgery at Harvard University.
Sophia Z.
Sophia attended Yale University, where she was a Global Health Scholar and studied Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health. Sophia is currently a student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Selene
Selene graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Cognitive Science, concentrating in Computation and minoring in Computer Science and Chemistry. Since graduating, Selene has been working as a full-stack developer, but she will be resuming her medical journey in the fall as an accepted MD candidate.
Kavya
Kavya graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with a joint degree in Chemical & Physical Biology and Statistics. Currently, he is studying computational biology at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar.
Olivia L.
Olivia graduated from Boston College with a degree in biochemistry (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). After working as a research assistant at Harvard Medical School, she began her PhD in Chemical Biology at Harvard University.
Jared S.
Jared is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he will also be pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering or Electrical Engineering/Computer Science. He previously graduated with a BS in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley.
Alex F.
Alex earned his BA in Biological Basis of Behavior with minors in Chemistry and Healthcare Management at the University of Pennsylvania. He went straight from undergrad into medical school, where he is now wrapping up an MD at Harvard Medical School.
Spencer S.
Spencer graduated from Rice University summa cum laude. After teaching English at the national medical school in Laos as a Fulbright Scholar, he earned his MD at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine on a full tuition scholarship. He is currently an Emergency Medicine resident physician in Colorado.
Michelle W.
Michelle graduated with high honors from Princeton University, majoring in Chemistry and minoring in Global Health & Health Policy and Neuroscience. Currently, she is working as an associate consultant at Trinity Life Sciences.
Aaron A.
Aaron attend Harvard for undergrad, where he studied biology and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. After Harvard, Aaron moved from one Cambridge to another, studying for a Master's in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge as a Harvard-Cambridge Fellow.
Matt Y.
Matt attended Rice University as a Trustee Distinguished Scholar, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Biosciences. He is now pursuing an MD at Harvard Medical School.
Juliet B.
Juliet is a PhD candidate in Biology at MIT. She also holds a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lauren K.
Lauren is a recent graduate of Harvard College, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Chemistry. She is currently studying Pharmacology at the University of Oxford as a US Rhodes Scholar, and hopes to attend medical school afterwards.
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.
Hayder
Hayder holds a BA in History from the University of Houston and an MD from the University of Chicago. He is now an Emergency Medicine Resident at the cross-town rivals, Northwestern Medicine.
Jessie D.
Jessie studied biochemistry and psychology at Tufts University, earning a 4.0 GPA (Phi Beta Kappa) and several awards for her leadership in the Chemistry Department. She is currently in her fourth year at Harvard Medical School and is pursuing a residency in Orthopaedic Surgery.
Kaiz
Kaiz graduated from Williams College, where he pursued a dual major in biology and psychology. He is currently pursuing his MD at Harvard Medical School.
Ann D.
Ann graduated from UC Berkeley with two degrees, one in Molecular and Cell Biology and the other in Music. They're currently pursuing a PhD in Biology at Johns Hopkins.
Ephraim
Ephraim graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was selected as a Barry Goldwater Scholar, BP-ENDURE scholar, and regional finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. He is currently an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School.
Rodrigo
Rodrigo is a 4th year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. Originally from Los Angeles, he studied nutritional science at Cornell University, where he graduated with honors and distinction.
Amara
Amara is currently in her final year of the MD/PhD program at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and will be starting her residency in Neurology next year. She holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton.
Julia F.
Julia earned a degree in Neuroscience at Pomona College, graduating with a 3.92 GPA and Phi Beta Kappa. She is currently pursuing an MD at Harvard Medical School.
Lake
Lake graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kansas with a degree in Ecology. After graduating from the Yale School of Medicine, he matched into an Emergency Medicine Residency in Denver, Colorado.
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.
Alex L.
Alex graduated summa cum laude from Duke University. She then took a year off to pursue research and clinical work before enrolling at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Alex is applying to residency programs in otolaryngology (ENT) and will soon be able to live out her dream of being a surgeon.
Mary M.
Mary accepted a full-ride scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh, where she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in Biology and Spanish. She is currently pursuing her MD at Harvard Medical School, where she is learning about the expansion of global surgery.
Alyssa K.
Alyssa is an MD-PhD student at Yale School of Medicine. Previously, she earned a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard College.
Beth G.
Beth earned her BA in Human Biology and MA in Education from Stanford University. She is now in the PhD program in Animal Biology at UC Davis, where she studies the proteins involved in sperm-egg fusion.
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.
Bethany
Bethany is currently pursuing an MD at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she completed a bioethics research fellowship at The Hastings Center and graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Dakota.
Alina
Alina graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor’s in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. She is currently a Biology PhD candidate at MIT studying chromosome pairing and segregation in reproductive cells.
Maddie EL
Maddie is currently pursuing her PhD in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at MIT. Previously, she earned a BA in Neuroscience and Psychology from Smith College, graduating with Highest Honors.
Annie L.
Annie earned her BA in Economics and Cell Biology from Rice University, graduating cum laude. She is now a dental student at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Aarthi
Aarthi attended Yale University, graduating magna cum laude with a BS and MS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. She is currently pursuing her MD in the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program.
Hanil
Han graduated summa cum laude with highest honors from Brandeis University, earning a BS in Neuroscience and Biology. He's presently an MD candidate at Tufts University.
Cary
Cary graduated from Loyola University Chicago summa cum laude with a BS in Environmental Science and minors in Biology and English. She next earned a PhD from Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology Department.
Liam T.
Liam graduated from the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude with three majors in Physics, Biophysics, and Biochemistry. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Physics, he is now a PhD Candidate in Biophysics at Harvard University.
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.
Hyae Won
Hyae Won graduated from University of Washington with a double degree in Bioengineering and Biochemistry. She's currently pursuing her MD at Harvard Medical School.
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.
Winnie
Winnie is currently pursuing an MD at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Previously, she studied Molecular Biology at UCLA, where she was named UCLA’s Class of 2020 Distinguished Senior for her community service, mentorship, and research endeavors.
Michael Ki.
Michael is a PhD Candidate in Neuroscience and Genomics at Harvard University. His current focus is on developing cutting-edge research technologies for fellow scientists.
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.
Irving
Irving is pursuing his MD at Harvard Medical School, where he was awarded the Dean's REACH Scholarship. He seeks to merge his passion for neuroscience and advocacy to increase access to behavioral healthcare in underserved populations.
Kate K.
Kate holds a BA in Biology and Philosophy from Williams College. After working with Minds Matter Boston and Clarion Healthcare, she is currently an associate director in corporate development at Relay Therapeutics.
Catarina
Cata earned a degree Organismic & Evolutionary Biology with a secondary in the History of Art & Architecture at Harvard College. She also holds an MA in Environmental Management from Duke University and currently works as an environmental consultant in Boston.
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.
Caroline Be.
Caroline attended Yale College where she majored in History of Science and Medicine. She graduated with Latin Honors, Distinction in her major, and a 3.92 GPA. She was awarded the Heinrich von Staden Cup for her contribution to the social and intellectual conscience of the college.
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.
Nathan M.
Nathan graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BS and MS in Molecular and Cellular Biology and minors in Bioethics and Music. Selected for a 2023 Marshall Scholarship, he will be studying for a DPhil in Paediatrics at Oxford through 2026 (researching tuberculosis diagnostics), after which he will attend Harvard Medical School to pursue his MD.
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.
Salman
Salman is an MD Candidate at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously attended UNC Chapel Hill, majoring in Biology and graduating with highest distinction and Phi Beta Kappa honors.
Jinoh
Jinoh attended Columbia University, where he graduated with a Neuroscience and Behavior major with a 3.8 GPA and departmental honors. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Neurobiology at Harvard.
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.