Medical Student

Student Council President

I served as the Stanford Medical Student Association (student council) president during the 2022-2023 academic year, as VP of wellness during the 2021-2022 academic year, class representative during the 2024-2025 school year, and first-year wellness representative during the 2020-2021 school year. During my tenure as president, SMSA successfully negotiated for a 50% increase in the student activities budget and I served in multiple advisory and leadership roles with our administration, including as the sole student representative on the Stanford Medicine Integrated Strategic Plan Refresh Committee and on Financial Aid and Student Spaces Redesign Committees. In my work as VP of Wellness, I served on search and screen and interview committees to hire staff for the Stanford Medicine Mental Health Team.

Medical Student Researcher

My work in the Mackall Lab focused on understanding the role of the transcription factor FOXO1 in CAR T cells. Our investigations established FOXO1 as a critical mediator of CAR T cell fitness and efficacy and found that overexpression was associated with better antitumor activity, memory-like phenotypes, and in vivo efficacy. Our work is published here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07300-8

Cancer Researcher

I was a CRTA Research Fellow in the Chattoraj Lab at the NCI, where I investigated chromosomal replication and segregation in Vibrio cholerae. I was mentored by Dhruba Chattoraj, Ph.D., and Revathy Ramachandran, Ph.D.

Undergraduate Researcher

As a member of the Baugh Lab, I researched insulin-like signaling, development, and metabolism in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. My work focused on metabolic shifts that are crucial to the worm's stress response. We discovered that carbohydrate metabolism is downstream of insulin-like signaling in C. elegans, and that the synthesis of trehalose, a disaccharide, is important for prolonging early-life starvation survival and mediating stress resistance in the worm. My work culminated in a second-author paper in eLife (October 2017), as well as a senior research thesis. I was mentored by L. Ryan Baugh, Ph.D., and Jonathan Hibshman, Ph.D.