Kesi Wilson, BS

Kesi Wilson is originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is a first-generation Caribbean-American born to Trinidadian parents. She graduated Yale in 2021 with a degree in Neuroscience and a certificate in Mandarin. During college, she worked in a systems neuroscience lab, where she explored axonal rebranching after spinal cord injury in mice. After college, she spent one year studying Korean at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) as a Light Fellowship scholarship recipient. After returning to NYC, she spent 2.5 years working in an immunology and vaccinology lab, working to characterize humoral immunity in humans after receiving vaccines of public health interest (mpox, COVID-19, flu, etc.).

She returned to Yale in 2025 to pursue her MD-PhD. Her clinical interests include neurology, neurosurgery, and pediatric subspecialties, but she wishes to explore many topics throughout medical school. On the research side, she hopes to affiliate with the INP at Yale and pursue topics in neuroimmunology. She is looking forward to learning how to combine both clinical and research passions throughout physician-scientist training at Yale.

Other than science and medicine, she has always loved to read and strongly believes in the power of storytelling. Other things that bring her joy are dancing, baking, watching movies, trying new restaurants, and practicing both Muay Thai and Pilates. She also find joy in the antics of her two delinquent cats, Rumi and Milk.