Medical student - MS3
UMass Chan Medical School
Reef Al-Asad is a third year medical student at UMass Chan Medical School. She receieved her B.A. in neurosience from Boston University. She completed her honors thesis on hearing regeneration in the auditory nerve of deafened mice at Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary in Dr. Albert Edge's laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Judith Kempfle. She became a research associate in the Edge lab for 2 more years, working with Dr. Kempfle on multiple projects related to auditory neuron regeneration.