Ghassan
As a Life Sciences Engineering student at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), I am going on an exchange year to finish my Bachelor’s at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University, USA. The help from the Hubert Tuor Foundation was vital to make this dream come true, and will allow me to fully benefit from the research environment at Johns Hopkins. My interests lie in computational biology, more precisely in how computational methods can further our understanding of diseases at the genetic, regulational and protein level.
Originally from Lebanon, my first years at EPFL proved to be quite fruitful. I maintained a high academic standard while involving myself in student associations and student-led projects. Notably, I became the leader of the bioinformatics team for the Genorobotics student project, dealing with DNA sequencing data and species prediction. In my role as External Relations Coordinator for “SV industry”, I also organized career orientation events and round-tables around subjects relevant to the life sciences. These engagements revealed my passion for the intersection of engineering and biology with fields like protein design, genome analysis and organoid development standing out. Courses at EPFL have also aroused my interest in entrepreneurship and innovation management.
While in the United States, I intend to further explore academia by performing research within one of university’s labs. The diverse courses I will take at Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering will help validate my interests in preparation for a Master’s in Life Sciences Engineering. I am thrilled to be part of 242’s network of inspiring and motivated members, and can’t thank the foundation enough for this opportunity!