Two DMS Students Ran the Boston Marathon!
Congratulations to Harvard Medical School and Harvard Griffin GSAS students Michael Quezada (BBS MD-PhD) and Gabriel Alberts (SHBT), who are running the Boston Marathon today!
Quezada is a fourth-year MD-PhD student who studies epigenetics — how genes are turned on and off in a single cell. He focuses specifically on a class of proteins called transcription factors, which constantly scan the genome and decide which genes are turned on and when.
“It turns out that physical interactions between different transcription factors are important in this process, so I am working on mapping the landscape of these interactions,” Quezada said. “Aberrant transcription factor activity underlies many diseases, such as cancer, so I hope that better understanding their biochemical properties will help us develop more targeted therapies against this class of proteins.”
In the future, he hopes to pursue a career in cardiology as a physician-scientist.
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Meet Gabriel Alberts, a graduate research student at Mass Eye and Ear and a first-time marathon runner for Team Eye and Ear.
Gabriel works in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories alongside Scientist Sunil Puria, PhD, studying how the cells inside our ears move to help us hear. Their research could lead to better diagnoses and treatments for hearing loss.
“This is my first—and maybe only—marathon,” Gabriel says. "I wanted to go big. Training has taught me that small gains add up, just like in research. Progress comes from consistency and commitment.”
We're proud to support Gabriel as he carries his passion for science and care beyond the lab and onto the marathon course.
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