I am a MD-PhD candidate at Stanford University, with a research focus on regulatory genomics in cardiovascular disease. Previously, I studied developmental biology and history of science at Harvard College. I also hold a MRes in Bioengineering from Imperial College London via the British Marshall Scholarship.
As a science journalist, I cover biology, biotechnology, bioengineering, and funky animals.
Among other topics, I've covered generative AI in biology, COVID (here, here, and here), Roe v Wade, and the marvelous biochemistry of sea cucumbers. I am a contributing writer for WIRED Science and was a 2022 AAAS Mass Media Fellow there.
Here is a running list of some of my written work.
- The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling, for WIRED
- Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse, for WIRED
- This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer's Nerves, for WIRED
- Gentle Brain Stimulation Can Improve Memory During Sleep, for WIRED
- The Quest for a Switch to Turn on Hunger, for WIRED
- The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect, for WIRED
- Covid Can Boost Your Response to Flu Vaccines—if You're a Man, for WIRED
- Why Do You Get Sick in the Winter? Blame Your Nose, for WIRED
- This Low-Cost Test for Hearing Loss Lives on a Smartphone, for WIRED
- The Spooky Science of How Undead Spores Reanimate, for WIRED
- To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte, for WIRED
- Randall Munroe Is Back to Answer Your Impossible Questions, for WIRED
- What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?, for WIRED
- The Fall of Roe Makes Complex Pregnancies Even Riskier, for WIRED
- This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs, for WIRED
- These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage, for WIRED
- What Humans Can Learn From the Sea Cucumber's Toxic Arsenal, for WIRED
- The Secrets of Covid 'Brain Fog' Are Starting to Lift, for WIRED
- What Polar Bear Genomes May Reveal About Life in a Low-Ice Arctic, for WIRED
- How the Sugars In Spit Tame the Body's Unruly Fungi, for WIRED
- Coffee Boosts Beneficial Gut Bacterium, for Scientific American
- Colon Cancer Linked to Mouth Bacteria, for Scientific American
- How Science Competitions Fuel Biology Breakthroughs, for The Scientist
- Introducing a New Version of the Cell Cycle, for The Scientist
- A Prime-Editing Based Approach Records Cellular Genetic History, for The Scientist
- How the Crimean Congo Virus Sneaks into Cells, for The Scientist
- A Twisted Secret that Extends mRNA Longevity in Cells, for The Scientist
- An Epigenetic Strategy to Control Bad Cholesterol, for The Scientist
- Finding new strategies to treat Pompe disease, for Drug Discovery News
- Boosting ovarian cancer immunotherapy with fatty acid uptake, for Drug Discovery News
- A new twist on the BRCA1 cancer gene, for Drug Discovery News
- Immune cell dysfunction could explain severe RSV in children, for Drug Discovery News
- Fatty acids restore normalcy to the vaginal microbiome, for Drug Discovery News
- CRISPR strategy could restore delayed-onset hearing loss, for Drug Discovery News
- Science Milestone: The evolution of gene therapy, for Drug Discovery News
- Recombinant polyclonal antibodies for viral diseases, for Drug Discovery News
- An mRNA twist to the HIV vaccine problem, for Drug Discovery News
- A vitamin-sized device samples the gut microbiome, for Drug Discovery News
- Tiny Love Stories: 'Lenny Was Supposed to Fall for the Other Iris', for The New York Times
- Making New Biology, for Grow by Ginkgo
- What is Healthy Aging?, for Ideas Matter
I am currently completing my PhD in Genetics, advised by Jesse Engreitz and supported by the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. I am particularly interested in leveraging complex biological models to uncover the gene regulatory networks driving congenital heart disease.
To view my publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.