Trae Dunn
Studied at Stanford University School of Medicine
Works at SynaptoBoost
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Work Experience
Co founder
SynaptoBoost
January 2025 - Present
Working to develop the first disease modify therapeutic to treat Drug-Resistant-Epilepsy via Stanford SPARK Funding.
Research Intern
University of Alabama at Birmingham
June 2021 - May 2022
Research intern in Dr. Erik Roberon's lab characterizing the specificity of a novel small molecule inhibitor of Tau-SH3 interaction in vitro
Summer scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
June 2019 - August 2019
Gould Fellow for the MIT Summer Research Program Bio (MSRP-Bio) where I identified suppressors of hira-1 and xnp-1 and analyzed whether stress responses were properly terminated in hira-1 and xnp-1 mutants in Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Horvitz’s Lab under Dr. Kirk Burkhart’s supervision
Summer scholar
Carbon
June 2018 - August 2018
2018 Birla Carbon Summer Research Program Scholar where I studied the ztf-29 transcription factor mutation (PRDM16 ortholog) role in nervous system development in C. elegans
Education
Stanford University School of Medicine
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical & Systems Biology
2024 - 2028
Thesis Advisor: Nathanael Gray
Stanford University School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine - MD
2022 - 2030