Tricia received her BA from Williams College, where she majored in biology and music. For her undergraduate thesis, she studied the effect of sublingual immunotherapy on lung tissue-resident T cells in allergic asthma. In the Beroukhim and Bandopadhayay Labs, she researched mechanisms of drug resistance in pediatric brain tumors.  As of July 2018, she is an MD-PhD student at Columbia University Medical School.

Fun fact: Tricia plays cello and piano! Fun musical moments have included a play where she was stranded alone with her cello on a stairless platform for three hours, an orchestra rehearsal briefly attended by Sting, and a wedding proposal at the top of a hill that almost happened until bad weather occurred. (NB from Rameen: youtu.be/rnC18X1oqDI)

Favorite quote: “I don’t really have any quotes off the top of my head, though a close friend recently said to me, ‘Lolita, light of my life, fire of my covfefe.’ Is that inappropriate? No one knows what it means anyway.”