Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
“Don’t you ever get bored?” It wasn’t a question I’d expected from my high school summer student on her second day in the lab. And… Read More »How Mentoring a High School Student Helped Me Plan for My Future
I grew up during the rise of social media. Born in 1995, I have watched social media transform from inconsequential platforms for storing your random… Read More »Tackling Twitter as a Graduate Student
Every evening when I get home from campus, I put on the teakettle, get out my cross-stitch and flip on a TV show. Sawing noises… Read More »Finding the Medicine in Historical Drama
When I tell people I study platelets, I am not often met with excitement. Most people know platelets as those tiny things that form clots,… Read More »A Primer on Platelets — Tiny but Mighty
“Kidneys…relax…” I know where my kidneys are located thanks to my anatomy classes, but how would I make them relax, and do I even want… Read More »Meditation: Building a Community Across the Hopkins Campus
Every summer, a fresh crop of physicians enters the workforce. Overnight, trainees begin new roles and take on new responsibilities. You could imagine that we… Read More »Summer Transitions: Learnings from Residency
What are cell and gene therapies and how are they different from drugs? Cell and gene therapies are biologic drugs that come from living systems… Read More »Considerations for the Manufacturing of Cell and Gene Therapies for Humans
At the time, chaos and disappointment were all I saw in Baltimore. Imagine sitting at the sixth story window, looking out across the Baltimore skyline,… Read More »Stockholm Syndrome City
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle touched down on the surface of the moon. Approximately 650 million people around the world… Read More »50 Years Since Humankind’s Giant Leap
Guest post by Parnaz Daneshpajouhnejad, M.D., a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The following… Read More »Knocking on the Door: How to Leave Your Postdoc Position