Eugenia Roberts

Born and raised in León, Nicaragua, Eugenia moved to the U.S. in 2017 to complete her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At UMass, she joined Dr. Sloan Siegrist's lab where she found her passion for developing point-of-care diagnostics. After graduating college in 2021, she became joined a postbac program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. During her time in Viktor Adalsteinsson's lab at the Broad, she continued following her interests in diagnostics as she helped create a more accurate DNA sequencing method that improves the detection of cancer mutations in patients. At Yale, Eugenia hopes to merge her clinical and research training to mitigate health disparities through the development of affordable and accessible diagnostics and therapeutics. During her time at Yale so far she has volunteered at HAVEN Free Clinic, and taken on leadership positions as VP of the Latino Medical Student Association, Co-Director of the high school enrichment program HPREP 2024, and co-planning the 2024 MSTP Second Look. This upcoming Fall 2025 she will be starting her PhD in Genetics in Dr. Peter Glazer's lab.

Eugenia's research interests include cancer biology, immunology, infectious diseases, genetics, and microbiology.