Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Developmental Biology
Fellowship Sponsor: American Physiological Society
Fellowship Site: STAT
@atJustinChen
I recently completed my PhD in the MIT Department of Biology where I used frog embryos to model human craniofacial development. I am currently pursuing a career in science communication and am excited for this upcoming summer when I will be writing for STAT as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow. In the past, I have worked with multiple organizations at MIT including MIT News, the Biology Department, and the Convergence Idea Challenge. I particularly enjoy writing profiles about scientists that highlight their personality and explore how they find meaning in the world. In my spare time, I am usually running along the Charles river, reading novels, or napping.
Fellowship publications at STAT
6/20/2018 Muscle and fat loss may offer clues to pancreatic cancer’s deadly ways
6/21/2018 How can Atul Gawande help reinvent health care with his new company? These people have some ideas
6/25/2018 With new advances, scientists and drug makers reach for ‘holy grail’ of diabetes treatment
6/26/2018 Scientists can track the spread of opioids in sewers. But do cities want to know what lies below?
7/06/2018 In the age of mail-order DNA, a firm seeks to increase safety without slowing progress
7/11/2018 Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants?
7/16/2018 Sonic hedgehog and Beethoven: an oral history of how some genes got their names
7/26/2018 For life’s big questions, Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns try a scientific approach
8/01/2018 Scientists, using new method, coax bioengineered lungs to survive for prolonged period in pigs
8/13/2018 In lofty quest to map human memories, a scientist journeys deep into the mind of a worm