Diego Perez Aracena

Diego is an MD-PhD student, originally from Puerto Rico and raised in Tampa, Florida. Before Yale, he worked for two years at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute on cell lineage tracing and multi-omic profiling tools in the lab of Dr. Fernando Camargo, contributing to our understanding of cell populations in aging hematopoiesis. Diego attended Fordham University on a full ride as a National Hispanic Scholar, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Integrative Neuroscience, a multidisciplinary degree spanning Systems and Computational, Cell and Molecular, and Cognitive neuroscience. Diego also competed as a Division 1 Athlete in Springboard Diving and gained minors in Biochemistry and Philosophy. If there weren't a million ways to still improve human health using science and technology, you might find him highlining, painting, or dabbling in epistemology.