MD Candidate — St. George's University
Medical education toward MD degree with integrated physician-scientist training in internal medicine and oncology.
Timeline
Career timeline.
Key milestones in research, training, and professional development.
Milestones
Chronological career path.
Clinical Rotations — SGU Clinical Centers
Core clinical clerkships in internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, and family medicine.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow — Harvard Medical School & MGH
Cancer immunology and pulmonary organoid research with a focus on immune-epithelial interactions, tumor microenvironment, and translational oncology under the Schwartz lab at MGH and the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School.
PhD in Molecular Biosciences & Bioengineering — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Doctoral dissertation on T-cell activation and microRNA regulation. First-author publication in Journal of Biological Chemistry on the miR-15a/16–MEK1–ERK1/2–Elk1 signaling axis.
Co-author Publication — Nature Biomedical Engineering
Biomaterial vaccines capturing pathogen-associated molecular patterns for protection against bacterial infections and septic shock.
Clinical Pathology Internship — Kaiser Permanente
Hands-on clinical pathology training in microbiology, hematology, clinical chemistry, and molecular diagnostics.
Graduate Researcher — UH Mānoa, Molecular Biosciences
Doctoral research in T-cell immunology under Dr. Mariana Gerschenson and Dr. Wei-Kung Wang. Investigated microRNA regulation of immune signaling.
Preclinical CRO Scientist — QPS LLC
Preclinical study coordination, histopathology, and in vivo pharmacology for drug development programs in oncology and immunology.
Research Assistant — UH Mānoa, Department of Biology
Molecular biology techniques, cell culture, and immunological assays supporting research on T-cell signaling and infectious disease models.
Undergraduate Research — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
BS in Biology with focus on molecular biosciences. Began laboratory training in immunology and molecular biology techniques.