Author: Thomas and Craig

Hi everyone! If you’re new here, welcome—and if you’ve been following us, welcome back! These days, we’re buried in exams almost every other week—it’s non-stop. But this crazy schedule actually reminded us of what we were doing a year ago: college applications! This post is a little different. Around this time last year, we interviewed one of our senior friends, who had just started his freshman year at the University of Michigan. We asked him about college life, homesickness, and his first impressions. Now that we’re freshmen at…

Hello! If this is your first visit, welcome! And if you’ve been here before, welcome back! This post is a little different from our usual updates. We had the rare chance to sit down with our father, a physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) who specializes in a very rare disease called Wolfram syndrome. We’ve grown up watching him work, but we’ve never really had a one-on-one talk about his career path, why he made certain choices, and what he’s learned along the way. So we…

“Anybody who’s doing discovery research should go in directions they never anticipated. If you don’t, you’re not really doing discovery research.”— Dr. C. Ronald Kahn In our latest interview, we had the chance to speak with Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, a legendary diabetes researcher and physician-scientist. Dr. Kahn is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Academic Officer at the Joslin Diabetes Center. Widely recognized as a global expert in diabetes and obesity, he has made pioneering contributions to our understanding of insulin signaling and…