Academy Blog & Case Studies
Discover the real stories, publications, and scientific breakthroughs achieved by our mentees and fellows.
Not Every Discovery Happens in a Laboratory
A biochemistry student who applied to the GSA internship out of pure curiosity, and how staring down error messages and transcriptomic datasets on hepatocellular carcinoma turned into confidence to work across the wet lab and dry lab.
How I Found My Passion in the Dry Lab
A committed wet lab student who kept feeling pulled toward computational biology, and how the GSA internship turned that curiosity into a transcriptomics project on pancreatic cancer and an award-winning conference poster.
I Came for R Tutorials; I Left with a Research Career
A veterinary student who found bioinformatics just out of reach until a YouTube channel and the GSA internship turned R tutorials into a multi-omics kidney cancer project and a research career.
The Summer I Stopped Being Afraid to Ask Questions
The youngest of five interns, afraid to ask questions — and how a summer of esophageal cancer research became the first building block on the way to MIT.
A Little Bit of Courage Led Me to My GSA Bioinformatics Internship Journey
Naturally shy and full of doubts when he applied, Shakil found a supportive team, presented colorectal cancer research at an international conference, and never looked back.