An Undergraduate Research Story: Part Two

Duy Phan is a senior at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) majoring in neuroscience with a focus on systems neuroscience. He is a Bloomberg Scholar and recipient of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Phan has conducted basic and clinical neuroscience research across five institutions around the world supported by JHU internal grants and numerous national- and international-level fellowships from NIH, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the U.S. State Department. Phan’s research has culminated in 10 publications, including two first-author papers. He is active in the community as a volunteer at the Hopkins Hospital Transplant Unit and a science and mathematics tutor at a maximum-security prison in Baltimore City. His interests in scientific writing have led him to write a weekly neuroscience column for JHU’s newspaper and serve as the founding editor-in-chief of a student journal that publishes scientific review papers. While Phan considers himself first and foremost a physician-scientist in training, his passion for the performing arts as an orchestral violinist, solo concert pianist, and ballroom dancer have taken him to competitions and performances throughout North America. He is currently applying for MD-PhD programs, and long-term, he hopes to become a clinical neurologist and basic science molecular and systems neuroscientist.