Warren Alpert Physician-Scientist MD/PhD and Advanced Training Program

Jake is a graduate student in the Center for Computational Molecular Biology after completing his preclinical coursework at AMS. He is also a 2021 graduate of Brown (Sc.B Biological Physics) as a student in the Program in Liberal Medical Education. He is broadly interested in combining statistical inference and population genetics to understand drug resistance evolution in infectious diseases and cancer. He is currently developing computational tools for detecting copy number variation in clinical malaria samples. In his time outside of the lab he enjoys biking, reading, watching movies, and rooting for the Red Sox.