Arnav is an incoming MD-PhD candidate on the Pathways Track at HMS. In the lab, Arnav works to implement geographical state reconstruction to improve rapid phylogenetics for viral evolution. He is interested in utilizing and mapping genomic information to predict characteristics of important microbial isolates or genes.
He studied biophysics, biology and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. During undergrad, he studied glycosyltransferases in S. aureus under Paul Planet at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge, he developed a computational framework for plasmid genomics in the lab of Nicholas Thomson at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Outside of the lab, Arnav plays multiple sports including soccer, taekwondo and ultimate frisbee; he plays for Harvard’s Red Line ultimate frisbee team.