Comm Fellow 2016-2019
Aaron Dy served as a Communication Fellow from 2016 to 2019 when he graduated with a PhD in Biological Engineering at MIT. While at MIT, he worked on synthetic biology diagnostic technology in the lab of Jim Collins with Domitilla Del Vecchio as a co-advisor. During graduate school he also wrote and edited for the PLOS Synbio Community Blog to help communicate synthetic biology research.
Aaron currently works as a strategy consultant to life science companies at Health Advances in Weston, MA. He is orignally from Evansville, Indiana and received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Indiana University before graduate school at MIT. In addition to science and biotech, Aaron enjoys distance running, political organizing, and taking too many photos of his pets.