• Establishing and equipping a cutting-edge research laboratory, driving initial scientific exploration to support fundraising efforts.• Pioneering the development of iPSC-derived brain organoid models, enabling high-throughput screening for potential therapeutics targeting Parkinson's disease, Rett syndrome, and CDKL5 deficiency disorder.• Contributed to design and implementation of an AI-driven drug discovery platform leveraging scRNA-seq foundation models fine-tuned on organoid data; recognized with the prestigious NVIDIA Prize at the 2024 Bio x ML Hackathon.• Overseeing daily operations, including strategic planning, information management, and execution of the company's vision.

Lab: Dr. Gene Yeo (Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine)• Generated and integrated complex multi-omics datasets to identify and characterize the properties of RNA-binding zinc finger proteins.• Discovered subcellular RNA mislocalization in an iPSC-derived cortical neuron model of myotonic dystrophy.• Developed and tested RNA-targeted therapeutic strategies for microsatellite repeat expansion disorders.• Won fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation, and RNA Society.• Trained and supervised two undergraduate research assistants.

• Developed an automated high-throughput mass spectrometry assay for neuronal cholesterol quantification, significantly accelerating drug screening for Niemann-Pick disease.• Ran a small molecule drug screen and investigated structure-activity relationships of lead candidates for Huntington's disease.• Created a user-friendly program to analyze and visualize data from mass spectrometry-based compound screens.

• Identified polymorphisms associated with axon guidance defects in flies using genome-wide association analysis.• Developed R code to streamline analysis of fly GWAS data.• Wrote and defended an Honors Undergraduate Thesis.

• Accepted into a highly competitive international research program (5% acceptance rate).• Designed and executed a research project to study the effects of aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and neuronal activity on gene expression in the blood-brain barrier.

• Investigated the function of ultraconserved elements in a retinal development gene in Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog).• Generated transgenic tadpoles using restriction enzyme-mediated integration (REMI).