Biography

When a close family member of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was consumed with fear and concern. As I went through my undergraduate years at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), I started to channel those feelings into the chemistry, biology, and mathematics I had become so familiar with. Through my Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChemBE) degree, I realized I could use the skills I learned to combine my passions in research, engineering, and medicine to design effective chemotherapy delivery methods that can help alleviate cancer patients’ pain. After receiving a master’s degree in ChemBE at JHU, I started medical school at the University of Maryland Medical Scientist Training Program where I continued to expand my interests in not only patient care, but in teaching, mentoring, and medical education as well. For my PhD, I will be working to create novel nanobody-drug conjugates to treat pancreatic cancer in an international collaboration between the Cambridge Department of Chemistry and the National Institutes of Health. I am honored to have been selected as a Gates-Cambridge Scholar and look forward to the support from this multidisciplinary network to help accomplish my goals.

Previous Education

University of Maryland System Medicine 2028
Johns Hopkins University Chemical and Biomolecular Eng 2020
Johns Hopkins University Chemical and Biomolecular Eng 2019