Madeleine McGlynn

Hi there and welcome to the Core! I cannot wait to meet all of you so very soon. When I was taking the core, it often felt like an unfinished puzzle. I would parse out content into clusters of understanding but had yet to figure out a way to connect them. But my CAs could. They could always figure out a way to take the clusters of understandings I would come to office hours with every week and piece them together. While the Core taught me about the African Metapopulation Model and Fluorescent Sanger Sequencing, it also taught me a lot about what I love to study. Were it not for the Core, I would not have been swept off my feet by epidemiology and health policy, I would not have tutored students in the Core as a CTL subject tutor for HumBio (sidenote — CTL tutoring is a 10/10 resource and I could not recommend it more), and I would not have completed an honors thesis which investigated whether a targeted therapy for cancer could be used as a therapeutic for Pulmonary Hypertension (pulmonary hypertension is a fatal lung disease that I have been researching in the Kumar Lab for the last six years — I love talking research so if any of that sounded even remotely cool, feel free to ask me about it). When I was not working on policy papers or chem PSETs in Green, you could find me behind the lab bench, volunteering at the Palo Alto VA’s general medicine clinic, SoulCycling, or ‘foodie-ing’ my way through the Bay Area. The Core is a complex puzzle that every Core student approaches differently and we, CAs, are your partners in completing that puzzle. I cannot think of a more incredible privilege than getting to work with and alongside you this year.