Sean was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After graduating high school, Sean decided to travel the world, but didn’t make it very far — he only made it as far as East Lansing, Michigan where he earned a BS in chemistry at Michigan State University. Although Sean knows very little about the human body, he earned a PhD in physiology from Michigan State University where he studied drug resistance in melanoma. In the Beroukhim lab, Sean studies how germline variants impact cancer vulnerabilities and he studies genetic drivers of low-grade glioma growth.

Fun fact: Sean is from Michigan, the greatest state on earth.

Fun fact #2: Everything above, including the mistake about Michigan, was written by Sean.

Favorite quote: “Things take the time they take. Don’t worry. How many roads did Saint Augustine follow before he became Saint Augustine?” -Mary Oliver