BS Biochemistry, MSE Bioengineering

Elizabeth is a second-year PhD student in Bioengineering at Stanford University. She has a passion for exploring innovative gene therapies, developing new biomaterials, and finding ways to integrate her interests with space medicine.

BS Astrophysics, BS Mathematics, PhD Biomedical Engineering

Judy is a medical student and postdoc at Stanford. Her current work focuses on the imapacts of spaceflight on human cardiovascular pathophysiology. She is passionate about space medicine and worked as a medical fellow at SpaceX in Cape Canaveral. 

BS Neuroscience

Sabrina is a second year MD/PhD student. She studied neuroscience at Northeastern University where her research focused on motor control in children with ASD. During her gap years, she studied how aging affects pain signaling in the spinal cord. Ultimately, Sabrina's aims to establish a spinal cord regeneration lab that also studies how microgravity impacts the spinal cord.

BS Neuroscience

Clara is a first year masters student in Bioengineering. Her interest in space medicine began during her first internship at SpaceX, where she was exposed to people who were infectiously passionate about making human life interplanetary. In the summer of 2024, she returned to SpaceX and worked on creating the company's first "research bank" for FRAM-2 and worked directly with Polaris Dawn astronauts to run medical experiments. 

BS Mathematics

Maya is a second-year PhD student in Biomedical Data Science. She studied Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine, and currently studies the effects of spaceflight on the human proteome. In the future, she is interested in developing machine learning methods to research how space stressors affect pregnancy.

BS Aerospace Engineering, Minor in Computer Science

Sienna is first-year medical student. She majored in Aerospace Engineering and minored in Computer Science at MIT where her research focused on AI systems for future space exploration. She interned at NASA for four years working on various projects in the communications division. During her gap years, she conducted AI and neuroscience epilepsy research at the Children's National Hospital. Her ultimate goal is to become a physician astronaut providing aerospace engineering, computer science, and medical expertise to the first missions to Mars.