Profiles in "Biomedicine" Expertise Area

  • Plaisier works to answer open questions about human diseases by turning large-scale patient data into integrative models that can be used to describe novel disease biology or discover drug targets.
  • Silvie Huijben is an evolutionary biologist who studies the evolutionary ecology of resistant organisms. Her aim is to optimize treatment strategies that minimize resistance evolution, with a focus on malaria.
  • Merid is the director of the Digital Health and Racial Justice Lab at SFIS.
  • Jack Reihing is a 4th year Biomedical Science student. He has been in the Huijben lab since the Spring of 2023. Jack has a keen interest in infectious disease, and plans to attend medical school after graduating in 2025.