Angelica Camilo is a Ph.D. pharmacology student who also enjoys writing, embroidering and watching reality TV. An immigrant from the Dominican Republic, she is very passionate about empowering women from marginalized communities to thrive in all environments.
Oishika Das (Editor) is a first year Johns Hopkins medical student who studied biochemistry and government at the University of Texas at Austin. Moving nine times during her childhood, she loves exploring new places. In her free time, you can find her reading, playing piano or watching random YouTube videos.
Michael Dryzer is a Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate who is studying how different kinds of fatigue influence our perception of effort. When he’s not writing his dissertation, he likes to hike with friends or producing the latest episode of the Sci’more Podcast.
Amy Feng is a medical student at Johns Hopkins and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in public health and interdisciplinary studies. When not at Johns Hopkins, she loves to run, climb, read and hang out with friends and family members. She says she has the cutest dog ever — Chase.
Abdelrahman Gad, a native of Egypt, is a radiology postdoctoral fellow with a background in medicine. He’s passionate about groundbreaking research, and he enjoys exploring Baltimore’s diverse culture and cuisine. Gad spends free time savoring local coffee, reading, watching movies, collecting global souvenirs and enjoying baseball games.
Marcos Jaso-Vera is a Mexican postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins who likes drawing, reading and video games. He loves hard science fiction, and his favorite author is Isaac Asimov. He thinks using sci-fi books and electronic media is the right way to approach young generations regarding science and progress.
Katie King is a second-year Ph.D. student studying teeny tiny things, and loving every minute of it. Outside of the lab, she can be found climbing Baltimore rocks, scrolling through Instagram Reels and trying to improve her cooking abilities.
Jack Loftus is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has a background working in the harm-reduction world as an addiction treatment counselor. He has always loved movies, good stories and characters, and live music. In his spare time, he is often trying new recipes or cooking something from scratch.
Hassan Moukhadder, who is driven by a passion about eye health and systemic diseases, aims to lead global vision health initiatives, reduce preventable vision loss and empower people who are visually impaired. His diverse experiences in internal medicine, ophthalmology and leadership fuel his commitment to collaborative research and sustainable health care solutions for underserved communities.
Daniel Olshvang crossed continents from Israel to the U.S. to pursue his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. With a foundation in the biomedical industry, he’s now crafting innovative paths in AI research. Beyond the lab, you’ll find him harmonizing his passion for music, dissecting cinema narratives and sculpting a healthy lifestyle.
Katie Pham is a neuroscience Ph.D. student interested in visual processing and memory research. She was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, and raised in Northern California. When not in the lab, she enjoys spending time with her cats, watching Family Guy and reading literary fiction.
Greg Pommier is a second-year medical student who grew up in California. He likes to ask everyone he meets what their go-to trivia categories would be. His are Sichuan recipes, hikes in the French Alps, minutiae of the Three-Body Problem trilogy and embarrassing moments in Baltimore politics.
Whitney Stuard Sambhariya (Editor) is a PGY-1 in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute. She obtained her M.D./Ph.D. at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, where she also grew up before moving across the country for residency. Outside of working to survive residency, she is an avid marathon runner and coffee lover.
Mira Swartzlander is a second-year neuroscience Ph.D. student at The Johns Hopkins University. Their research interests include investigating the mechanisms regulating neuronal plasticity. Outside of the lab, Swartzlander likes dancing, cooking and attempting to garden.
Ethan Thio is a first year Johns Hopkins medical student who hails from Orange County, California. Apart from trying to stay afloat in medical school, he spends time making PowerPoint presentations, reading, having long conversations with friends and lying on his couch.
Chi Mai Trinh is a medical student in the class of 2025. Her nonmedicine-related interests include reading in coffee shops, watching cooking videos without ever trying any of the recipes and walking in the rain. Her medical interests (as of now) include women’s health and interventional radiology.
Luke Tomasovic is a second-year M.D./Ph.D. student interested in biomedical engineering and immunology. He spends most of his time running, whether it be away from his responsibilities or through the streets of Baltimore.