Frannie is a current undergraduate student at Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science. Frannie is majoring in Biomedical Engineering and potentially minoring in Statistics. She is interested in a career in medicine.
Frannie is a graduate of Hunter College High School. At Hunter, Frannie was a member of Varsity Indoor Track and Varsity Softball, winning the PSAL Championships (2022-2023). Outside of school, Frannie has done ballet at the School of American Ballet, performing at Lincoln Center and the Guggenheim Museum alongside members of the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. She has also volunteered for Scientific Minds of America over the last four years, an organization dedicated to offering homework help and test prep to underprivileged youth in New York City. Over the summer, she interned at a private OB/GYN practice, gaining some clinical experience and furthering her interest in a career in medicine.
Frannie has conducted research at NYU Tandon’s Protein Engineering Lab, specializing in the customization of artificial proteins for drug delivery, using organ-on-chip mechanisms to simulate tissue regeneration in the liver. Frannie is currently doing research at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, investigating LRRK2 and GBA mutations in manifesting and non-manifesting cases of Parkinson’s. Frannie also recently began research at Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry, researching the decline of hippocampal neurogenesis in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, in partnership with Mount Sinai.
In high school, Frannie took classes such as AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Statistics, and AP BC Calculus. Frannie also took Medical Physiology, Film & Media Studies, and Creative Writing: Short Fiction in her senior year. Frannie took the SAT the fall of her junior year and scored a 1600 (800 Math, 800 English).
In her free time, Frannie loves doing ballet, hanging out with friends, playing Block Blast, and watching TV shows.