Alyssa Blaise

Alyssa graduated from Tufts University in 2021 with a B.S. in Biopsychology and a minor in Latin. During her undergraduate studies, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Young at the Whitehead Institute studying the role of biomolecular condensates in the development of insulin resistance. Upon graduating, Alyssa spent two years at Yale working with Dr. Anthony Koleske studying actin dynamics. During her MD-PhD, Alyssa is broadly interested in studying molecular mechanisms of disease.