Will B.

I received my PhD in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2017. As a graduate student, my focus was on polymer chemistry and gene delivery, but one of my favorite parts about graduate school was mentoring undergraduate students and seeing them develop their skills in lab and in class. Once I completed my PhD, worked as an NIH postdoctoral fellow in a dentistry lab, focused on mRNA delivery for the treatment of oral cancer and gum disease. When I completed my postdoc in 2021, I began tea…