About Lauren Suh
Hello! My name is Lauren Suh and I am a rising sophomore at Columbia University from San Diego, California. I am majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior on the pre-medical track and plan to minor in Music (I play the flute!).
This summer, I will be working at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center under the supervision of Dr. Yousin Suh. My research project delves into ovarian aging, a critical marker of systemic body aging as one of the first organs to exhibit signs of aging. I will be researching whether DNA Helicase B, or HELB, delays or impacts ovarian aging.
I love yoga, running, thrifting, and baking! I am hoping to learn pottery this summer, so please reach out if you would like to join!
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Recent Comments
Hi Celine! That's so cool that you are able to communicate with international specialists and I totally understand what you mean about struggling to narrow the scope of your project. I also really like your last point about trying to bring out those traits in the people around us, because I do think that a good leader tries to make everyone else around them a leader too.
Hey Nike! I'm curious if your relationship with music, especially when living in a place like New York, has changed since starting your project. If so, do you think it has changed for the better? I would love to hear more about your research and what you mean by how music can unveil truths like state violence against Black Americans. Sounds incredibly interesting and nuanced!
Hi Van, thanks for this amazing field journal. Wow - I absolutely love your retrospective insight into Hamilton's Fed 55 comment after taking the leadership workshop - and I wholeheartedly agree with you. I also really appreciate that you call attention to the planning/analytical side of leadership. I have seen and felt your strong leadership since the start of Laidlaw, and I think I can speak for all of the cohort when I say that I am so grateful for the unique New York opportunities you suggest and coordinate!
Hi Claire! I loved learning about your experimental process, especially because you are interacting face to face with patients while many others (me included) are working with mice or just tissue samples, which can sometimes feel far removed from the human side of science. I found it incredibly interesting about your point of considering the patient's time, because I actually signed up to participate in one of the on-campus experiments! Your post made me wonder what kind of treatment I would experience as a patient, and also posits some interesting ideas about ethics!
Hi Phoebe! I completely relate to feeling overwhelmed by the literature review outline, particularly with its heavy technical jargon. That is the challenge I am currently trying to work through, and I agree that we can use the extensive support system Laidlaw offers. I would love to talk more about it with you to see if we can better organize our outlines together!
I'm sensing a NYC pizza crawl in our future!!