Advocate for aging biology research

I first got hooked on neuroscience research as an undergrad at UC Berkeley. Coaching folks with end stage renal disease on finding living donors in college made me realize medicine would benefit from more proactive approaches, which sparked my interest in aging research.

Now at Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, I’m exploring how sleep protects us from systemic stress, aiming to understand resilience pathways that could extend healthspan. Aging research can help us live healthier, longer lives and give humanity the chance to pursue ambitious missions like exploring space. I hope to write about aging and biology research to highlight their potential to transform health and inspire more people to work on these problems.

Recovering cardio skeptic

I’ve bounced around from Indiana to Taipei, then San Francisco, and somehow landed myself in Boston. Clearly I can’t make up my mind about the weather. These days, you’ll usually find me buried in blog posts, nonfiction books, textbooks, or research papers. When my eyes need a break, I love exploring the city on foot—usually getting lost, but that’s half the fun! Swimming’s great, too. Running and I had a brief fling; I did a half marathon to see what the hype is all about before deciding it’s not for me. Lifting makes me happy, and hiking even happier: my favorite was Snow Mountain in Taiwan at 3,886 meters above sea level. I used to make actual music, but now I just annoy my neighbors with amateur mixes on my DJ controller.