Jaime González-Hernández

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Jaime A. González-Hernández graduated from Pomona College in 2021 with a B.A. in Molecular Biology and a minor in Media Studies. Currently in his first year as an MD-PhD student, Jaime is interested in leveraging the fundamental connections between cancer and host-microbe interactions for the development of personalized therapies.

Jaime had his first research experience as part of the 2018 Yale BioMed SURF program in Dr. Aaron Ring's lab. In 2020, Jaime rejoined the Ring lab as well as Dr. Noah Palm's lab to work on BASEHIT, a high throughput host-microbe interaction screening platform and a collaborative project between the two labs. After graduating, Jaime continued working on BASEHIT for two years as a Postgraduate Research Associate to study how interactions between the human exoproteome (secreted and extracellular proteins) and commensal microbiota influence human health and disease.

Outside of academic medicine, Jaime has enjoyed volunteering in HAVEN Free Clinic as an interpreter to serve underrepresented patients, watching both kinds of football (American football and soccer), and analyzing films and other forms of visual storytelling to broaden his perspective.