MIT News November 9, 2020
During her time at MIT, senior Ayesha Ng’s interests have expanded from cellular biology to the social systems that shape public health.
As an aspiring physician amidst the medical school application process, Ayesha Ng has a sense of how microbiological, physiological, and social systems interact to affect a person’s health.
It was her childhood peanut allergy that first sparked senior Ayesha Ng’s fascination with the human body. “To see this severe reaction happen to my body and not know what was happening — that made me a lot more curious about biology and living systems,” Ng says.
She didn’t exactly plan it this way. But in her three and a half years at MIT, Ng, a biology and cognitive and...
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