About Ben:
Ben recieved his Bachelor's of Science degree in Biological Sciences from Northeastern University in 2018 before coming to work in the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology. As part of the Sorger lab, Ben has worked on the LINCS project creating dose response profiles of a large number of cancer cell lines, helped create a new assay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID19, developed numerous CRISPR cell line models to probe the biology of cancer cells and investigate cellular transport mechanisms, and contributed to the development of the CyCIF imaging platform. He is currently enrolled in the Harvard Extension School seeking a Master's degree in Biology to broaden his expertise, and is interested in increasing his proficiency in data analysis and programming.