I’m excited (and definitely a little nervous!) to share that I have started as Principal Investigator and faculty member at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research, a @harvardmed affliate! For the past few years, I’ve been obsessed with a pretty simple question: how do we understand and measure human aging well enough to actually do something about it? That question will be at the heart of what we build next. Our lab will focus on computational geroscience, bringing together AI/ML, multi-omics, and large-scale human data to understand the biology of aging and, ultimately, find ways to intervene on it. A big part of that will be building better biomarkers that can reliably measure aging and tell us whether an intervention is actually working. But I’m equally excited about what comes next: using computational tools to identify causal drivers of aging, discover new therapeutic targets, and help find and prioritize new therapies that could extend healthy lifespan. The bigger goal is to close the loop between measurement, discovery, and intervention, connecting computational work with experiments, human studies, and clinical trials. There is a lot to build, and an even longer list of things I still need to learn about running a lab. But that is probably what I’m most excited about. Building a team, learning from people across geroscience, medicine, computation, and industry, and tackling some interesting questions together. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone at Yale who helped me get to this point, and very excited for what comes next at Harvard ! PS I am definitely looking to hire some smart computational biologists and ML/AI folks so definitely reach out!