Kyra G.
Kyra attended Brown University, where she studied English and Nonfiction Writing and graduated with honors, magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Nonfiction Writing at the University of Iowa.
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.
Victor W.
Victor holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize for fiction. He also earned an MA in philosophy from the University of Miami where he was awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award, along with the Martha S. Weeks Graduate Excellence Award, and the Gerrit and Edith Schipper Award in philosophy.
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.
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.
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.
Sarah Ha.
Sarah graduated from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design with a dual degree in Comparative Literature and Painting. After earning her MFA in Painting at Yale, she went on to teach first grade at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn.
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.
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.
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.
Albert A.
Albert holds an MPhil in Economics from Oxford, an MFA in Fiction from NYU, and a PhD, focused on the theory of comedy, from the University of New South Wales. He is a published novelist and a playwright.
Jesse
Jesse holds a BA in History from Columbia, where he was a Navab Fellow, Solomon & Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellow, and Benjamin F. and Bernice Block Scholar. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Acting at Columbia.
Morgan
Morgan holds a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School and a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University. She is a former lawyer admitted to practice in the State of New York (having worked in both government and BigLaw), and most recently was the Script Coordinator on a Netflix TV show.
Rob F.
Rob holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University. Previously, he worked for Bain & Company and graduated from Stanford with a major in Political Science. He currently writes poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
Zaina
Zaina earned her BS in Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently pursuing an MD/PhD at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley.
Amy T.
Amy attended Stanford University, where she majored in Urban Sustainability and minored in Italian, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Amy went on to receive her MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University, where she was a Dillard Fellow and received the Andrew James Purdy Prize in Short Fiction.
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.
Emmett K.
Emmett attended Amherst College, where he majored in English. After college, Emmett spent five years working as a journalist and television producer. Next, he received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana.
Hannah L.
Hannah earned her BA from Yale University, where her undergrad poetry thesis won her Yale’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. Hannah got her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2015 and is currently an English PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
Andrew S.
Andrew received a BA from Columbia University, where he graduated magna cum laude and double majored in American Studies and English. After earning his MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College, Andrew is now an adjunct lecturer at CUNY.
Andrew S.
Andrew holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in English from Calvin University. He has taught English and Creative Writing classes at the University of Iowa and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, as well as tutored at Iowa’s Tippie College of Business.
Anna TW.
Anna holds an MFA in Acting from the Shakespeare Theatre Company/George Washington University and an MA in Acting from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Previously, she earned her BA in Creative Writing from Stanford University.
Sam C.
Sam graduated with a degree in Physics from Princeton University. After graduation, she taught physics at a high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She's currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Ajay
Ajay graduated from Northwestern University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) with degrees in Neuroscience and Philosophy, writing senior theses in both disciplines and publishing multiple peer-reviewed research papers in neuroscience. He is currently a third year student in the MD/PhD program at Harvard/MIT, and is enrolled in the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics PhD program.
Sean B.
Sean graduated from Yale University with a degree in American Studies. After teaching in Oklahoma City at Odyssey Leadership Academy, he went on to earn his MFA in Poetry at Boston University.
Matthew S.
Matthew attended Emory University, where he majored in English and Creative Writing and won several student film awards. He currently works in the film industry.
Pav
Pav graduated magna cum laude with a BSE in Chemical and Biological Engineering and minors in Engineering Biology and Global Health Policy from Princeton. He is now an MD-PhD student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Isabel T.
Isa designed an independent major at Williams College titled “Critical Health Studies,” combining philosophy, sociology, and anthropology with the goal of complementing her science-oriented pre-medical education with a humanist and critical exploration of health and medicine. After graduating with Highest Honors, she is now an entering MD-PhD student at the University of Michigan where she will complete her doctoral work in sociocultural anthropology.
Emily S.
Emily is pursuing an MD/PhD degree at Harvard, in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program. She previously studied Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University.
Haley V.
Haley went to Bryn Mawr College, double majoring in Mathematics and Chemistry and completing an AB/MA degree in Chemistry. She was recognized as a 2018 Barry Goldwater Scholar for her efforts in and out of the laboratory. Her dual passions for biophysical and chemical pathogens research led her to the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program, where she is currently a NIH-funded MSTP student in the Health Sciences and Technology track.
Samantha H.
Samantha attended Stanford University, where she explored the role of synaptic proteins in visual system development for her honors thesis research. She graduated with a BS in Biology conferred with honors and with distinction. She is currently pursuing a combined MD/PhD at Harvard Medical School and MIT in the Health Sciences and Technology program.
Nathan B.
Nathan is a lecturer in The Writing Seminars, the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his MFA at Hopkins, and also attended Emory University in Atlanta, majoring in English literature and creative writing and graduating summa cum laude.
Bex
Bex majored in theatre and minored in creative writing at Northwestern University, graduating summa cum laude. After settling in Chicago, Bex won a prestigious Luminarts Cultural Foundation fellowship in creative writing. They are now an MFA candidate at Hamline University, where they study writing for children and young adults.
Simran
Simran is pursuing a combined MD/PhD in the Harvard-MIT MD program and Immunology PhD program. Previously, she was a research technician at Fred Hutch, where she helped design novel protein-based cancer therapeutics and a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
Gha Young
Gha Young majored in Chemistry and Physics at Harvard College. During her time there, she conducted research on mRNA nanoparticles. She is now an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School, where she strives to combine nanomedicine with computational modeling.
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.
Kevin S.
Kevin graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry and triple minoring in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Bioinformatics. He is now pursuing a combined MD/PhD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Aum P.
Aum majored in Microbiology and minored in Anthropology and Health Disparities in Society at the University of Florida. Aum believes in the importance of research to drive medicine forward and improve health outcomes. As such, he is pursuing an MD/PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Tong
Thomas earned his BS in Chemistry at Duke. He is currently an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT. In the Harvard Immunology Program, he is studying how the immune system responds to severe viral infections such as COVID-19
Raj
Raj holds a BA in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Global Health and Health Policy from Harvard (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). He is now an MD/PhD student at Harvard-MIT.
Naama
Naama holds a BA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from Harvard (magna cum laude), an MPhil from Oxford in Oriental Studies and an MFA in Acting from DePaul. She has over three decades of tutoring experience.
Michaela
Michaela is an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT. She holds a BS in Biochemistry with minors in Philosophy and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Colorado (summa cum laude), where she was an NCAA Division I, All-American track athlete.
Cristian
Cristian majored in Human Biology and Society, and minored in Global Health at UCLA. He taught Chemistry at Crenshaw High via Teach for America, receiving his teaching credential from Loyola Marymount University. He is currently an Anthropology MD-PhD student at UCLA.
Adrienne
Adrienne received her English PhD from Harvard University, her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her BA from Princeton University. She is a nonfiction writer and poet, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.
Maya
Maya graduated Columbia University with dual degrees in Biology and Computer Science. She began her first year at the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program (Health Sciences and Technology MD track) in 2020.
Joan
Joan started radiology research at Northwestern while she was still in high school, and went on to earn her BA in Biology from Emory (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She is an MD/PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Joshua
Joshua studied Computational Biology at Brown University. Now, he's an MD/PhD at NYU School of Medicine, where he researches how machine learning algorithms can build clinical decision support tools.
Adrian
Adrian self-designed his MS/BS in Structural Biology and Molecular & Cell Biology at UConn. He then spent three years researching virus structure and antiviral therapies at Harvard, and is now pursuing an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT.
Anna-Sophia
Anna-Sophia graduated from Yale with a BS/MS in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and a BA in English. She worked with NASA developing medical tools for space before pursuing an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT.
Lara
Lara holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford (Phi Beta Kappa,Tau Beta Pi). She's currently pursuing an MD/PhD at Harvard Medical School in the Health Sciences & Technology program.
Zeshan
Zeshan holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford (Award of Excellence, Tau Beta Pi). He is now an MD/PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Health, Sciences, and Technology Harvard-MIT program.
Bryan
Bryan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, where he majored in English and Creative Writing. After teaching for several years, he is now the English Department Chair at a nationally recognized charter school in St. Louis.
Anna
Anna graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English and a minor in Linguistics and Language Theory. While at Harvard, she was a curriculum editor for the Mamelodi Initiative in South Africa.
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.
Emma
Emma is a JD candidate at Yale Law School. She holds an MPhil and DPhil in Social & Cultural Anthropology from Oxford, an MFA in Fiction from Southern New Hampshire University, and a BA in Sociology from Brown.
Alix
Alix graduated from Brown with a BA in Performing Arts. After spending almost a decade in Canada, she moved to New York for an MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University. Her award-winning plays have been produced all over the world.
Joy
Joy is an MD/PhD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She earned a BS (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology) and BA (Anthropology) from Brown, and completed a postbacc fellowship at the National Cancer Institute.
Ali
Ali is an MD/PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She received her BS from Boston College where she majored in Biology with a minor in Medical Humanities and was a Gabelli Presidential Scholar.
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.
Zach
Zach is a resident in Internal Medicine at Duke University. He holds his MD and his PhD in Neuroscience from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and completed his BS in Biology and Society at Cornell.
Humza
Humza graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a double major in Medicinal Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences. He is now an MD/PhD candidate at UCLA.
Mariam
Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. She currently serves on the faculty of Bennington College and is a postdoctoral Fellow with the American Council for Learned Societies in 2023-24.
Stacie
Stacie is currently an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT. Previosly, she served as the Concertmaster of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, and earned her Bachelor's in Biology with minors in Music and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
Daniel
Daniel is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of 5 books of literary nonfiction. He holds an MFA in Fiction (Columbia University), and has taught at Saint Ann's School, Columbia University, and elsewhere.
Vera
Vera served in the US Air Force for 6 years. After the Air Force, she double-majored in Neuroscience and Mathematics at the University of Arizona. She is currently completing her MD/PhD at University of Washington in St. Louis.
Chang
Chang is an MD/PhD student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He earned his BA in English Literature and Biochemistry at Columbia University, where he was a John Jay Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
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.
Ernesto
Ernesto is an MD/PhD candidate at UCSF. He graduated with all available honors from UCLA with a BS in Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Sara Deniz
Sara is a poet, educator, and scholar. She holds a BA in English (Wesleyan) and an MFA in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop). She is currently working on her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kannan
Kannan holds a BA in the History of Science (University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop). His stories have been published in the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and Racquet.
Emma
Emma earned her BA in English from Sarah Lawrence and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a writing teacher, editor, and agent, and is now a freelance editor based in California.
Ellen
Ellen is an MD-PhD student in the Health Sciences and Technology Program at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she earned her degree in Chemistry at Caltech.
Shelby
Shelby holds a Master's in American Studies (Oxford) and an MFA in Fiction (UC Irvine). His stories have been published in places such as Vice News and GOOD Magazine, primarily about climate change and the environment.
Logan
Logan is an MD/PhD at Harvard. Prior to med school, she spent two years in affordable construction through AmeriCorps, and earned her BA in Child Development at Duke (Truman Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa).
Evan
Evan is a novelist, essayist, and educator. He holds an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop) and BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Evergreen State College). Currently, he teaches at Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut.
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
Mallory
Mallory earned her BA in English from Harvard University, where she was awarded a creative thesis in Playwriting. She went on to earn her MFA in Playwriting from the New School. She is a teacher in Salisbury School's summer program.
Claire
Claire holds a BA in English Literature (Brown) and an MFA in Painting (New York Academy of Art). Since 2016, she has been teaching high school English Literature at BASIS Independent in Brooklyn.
Aditya
Aditya holds a BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Biology from MIT. He is currently a student in the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program, pursuing research that applies engineering principles to medical applications.
Chris
Chris received his PhD in English from Harvard. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an AB from Princeton. He currently teaches at a K-12 school in Connecticut.
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.
Mark
Mark is currently an MD/PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Program. He earned his BS in Chemical-Biological Engineering at MIT (Tau Beta Pi), and was an Amgen Scholar and Eloranta Fellow.
Katherine
Katherine holds a BA in Classics (Harvard), an MA in Classical Art & Archaeology (University of London), and an MD/PhD in Ancienty History (Harvard). She is a diagnostic radiology resident and postdoc fellow at Harvard.
Weike
Weike holds a BA in Chemistry and English (Harvard), an MFA in Creative Writing (Boston University) and a PhD in Cancer Epidemiology (Harvard School of Public Health). She has been a tutor with Cambridge Coaching since 2012.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth is an MD/PhD student at NYU School of Medicine's Medical Scientist Training Program. She holds a BA in Biology with a minor in English from Hunter College.
Alyssa
Alyssa holds a BA in English from Williams College. She completed her MFA in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College, where she was the recipient of a Truman Capote Scholarship. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.
Tushar
Tushar is currently an MD/PhD candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program at Harvard Medical School. He earned his BS and MEng in Biomedical Engineering at MIT.
Erin
Erin holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She also holds an MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature (University of Virginia) and BA in English (Rutgers University, summa cum laude with high honors).
Carla
Carla is an MD/PhD candidate in the Health Sciences and Technology program at Harvard-MIT. She earned her BS in Bioengineering from UPenn and her MS in Regenerative Medicine from the National University of Ireland.
David
David graduated from Princeton University with a BS in Molecular Biology. He is currently an MD/PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.
Elliot
Elliot earned his BS in Biology at MIT, and his MSc by Research in Clinical Medicine on a Rhodes Scholarshop at Oxford University. Currently, he is an MD/PhD student in the the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program.
Chelsea
Chelsea is a fully funded MD-PhD student in the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Harvard Medical School. She received her PhD in Population Health Sciences, Epidemiology from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in 2023 and will graduate from medical school in 2024.
Brian
Brian attended Stanford for his undergrad, where he studied Computer Science and Biology, and he was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. Currently, Brian is an MD/PhD at Harvard Medical School and MIT.
Jacob
Jacob was a double major in Playwriting & Astrophysics at Columbia (Phi Beta Kappa). He went on to earn his MFA in Playwriting at NYU Tisch, where he won the Faculty Award and the Sloan Foundation Science Screenwriting Award.
Shyam
Shyam is currently a student in the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program, with an MD from Harvard in the Pathways Program. He completed his BA in Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis (magna cum laude).
Jay Ben
Jay Ben holds a BA in Theater and Creative Writing from Dartmouth and an MFA in Acting from Case Western Reserve. He then helped build and served as Associate Artist Director for a summer camp program at MaineStage Shakespeare.
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.