Scientists at Whitehead Institute and Broad have developed a gene-silencing tool to potentially treat fatal prion diseases by turning off the disease-causing gene. A promising step towards gene therapy for diseases that lack treatments. broad.io/CHARM-news

I had way too much fun this summer Vanderbilt Biochemistry Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences working with microglia with Dr. Carter and Dr. Das 🧬 (and having a meme battle with someone on the break room white board) Hope to be back again someday Vanderbilt MSTP 👀

I refuse to say trkB (trackB) instead of trkB (terkB)

In about 4 years, I’ll have performed very well academically and exceptional on the MCAT. I’ll have done awesome meaningful research and finished up my undergraduate thesis at NYU. I’ll be gearing up for starting an MD-PhD program. I’ll revisit this tweet in just a few years.

Unsure whether I came for the neuroscience or for the deep dish, but I guess I’m here either way #sfn2024