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.
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.
Alex M.
Alex holds an MS in Chemistry from Yale and a BA in Chemistry from UNC. Presently, he works at a pharmaceutical company in the Drug Discovery division, directly applying his chemistry expertise to help develop novel disease therapeutics.
Emily V.
Emily is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. Currently, she is being funded by the National Science Foundation to research conditions in which the gut microbiome may behave in a way that is adaptive to the host. Prior to graduate school, Emily graduated from Harvard College cum laude with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology and minor in Chemistry.
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.
Pooja J.
Pooja holds an MD/MS in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University. She now works as a Product Manager at an early-stage mental health tech startup in NYC.
Amar
Amar holds an MD/MPHS from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience from the Eckardt Scholars Honors program at Lehigh University. Currently, he is a Diagnostic Radiology resident at the Mayo Clinic.
Sanjna
Sanjna earned her BA in Biochemistry at Cornell University (Phi Beta Kappa). She is now a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Twenty-First Century Scholar.
Maggie
Maggie is currently an MD student at Columbia. She attended Boston College on a full merit scholarship and graduated with a BS in Biology and minor in History, and earned her MS in Archaeological Science from Durham University, UK.
Casey
Casey received her PhD in Neuroscience from the Icahn Scholl of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and her BS in Biology from William & Mary. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University.