Five Questions

When it comes to love languages, Raeshawn Rae is multilingual. Her patients at the GW Cancer Center are often on the receiving end of her words of affirmation and encouragement

Even though Jeff Bethony is a basic researcher, there is nothing basic about his work. With a background in neglected tropical diseases and overseeing GW’s Biorepository while studying the confluence of HIV and cancer, his career has gone from the bench to the field to the bedside, and made…

Opera or medicine? When Catherine Bollard stood at that crossroads of her career, that was the question in front of her. Despite her love of opera and a family populated with artists and performers, life experiences drew her down the path of medicine.

Doug Evans looks at the world through different lenses. As the Director of the BRIGHT Institute at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, he leads research on the influence of digital technology on public health behaviors. As a collector of old and inaccurate maps, he sees the world through…

Clinical research coordinator Bethel Sebsebie is a long way from her Ethiopian home: 7,236 miles to be exact. In the seven years since she came to the United States, she’s learned to adapt to a new culture and build a strong career in clinical research — and she’s done checking to-dos off her list…

Sunil Adige has a golden brain. As a medical oncologist, his analytical side has a deep understanding of the intricate science behind cancer. As a painter, he sees beauty that others might overlook. Both sides of his brain work in harmony to make a profound impact on his patients’ lives.

Trace Walker’s fascination for science was nurtured in a Florida orange grove. There, he gained an appreciation for the symbiosis between the land and the trees. Now, as a PhD candidate in the Chiappinelli Lab, he researches spatial transcriptomics, the way tumor cells interact and communicate with…

As an epidemiologist, Kim Robien is all about the data. Behind her science is the soul of someone whose direct work with cancer patients motivated her to find the answers to questions that weren’t always easily answered.

Figuring out how things work comes naturally to Greg Cresswell, who runs the GWCC Flow Cytometry Core Facility. When he’s not helping scientists across campus with studies ranging from cancer biology to frog immunology, he’s building and designing gadgets with his 3D printer. Getting to the nuts…

For Anelia Horvath, the big picture comprises tiny particles. She studies genetic variants from single-cell RNA-sequencing data, and these little pieces of the puzzle are leading to important discoveries and answering huge questions.