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Alexander Weiden

Cambridge

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Student Researcher

University Of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO
03.2023 - 08.2025
  • Developed systems-level conceptual model describing relationships among social, structural, and biological determinants of health for youth in the Denver metropolitan area.
  • Conducted statistical analyses to evaluate associations between neighborhood-level socioeconomic indicators (income, housing stability, educational access, and environmental context) and behavioral health outcomes using R and SPSS

UROP Research at the Wilson Lab

Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
  • Investigated sleep behavior in comb jellies through behavioral tracking to study the evolutionary origins and conservation of sleep; quantified behavior states
  • Fabricated tetrodes for electrophysiological recording

Summer Researcher

Summer Science Program in Biochemistry at Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
06.2024 - 07.2024
  • Expressed and isolated recombinant Cdc14 phosphatase from E. coli and characterized enzyme activity via in vitro assays and substrate specificity testing
  • Performed protein modeling and molecular docking in Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) to analyze active-site interactions and evaluate antifungal inhibitors.
  • Used computational and experimental result to develop candidate fungicides to mitigate fungal crop infections; co-authored research report.

Summer Intern

Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
New Haven, CT
07.2022 - 08.2022
  • Analyzed barriers affecting clinical trial participation across underrepresented patient populations, devised strategies to increase it .
  • Contributed to development and content production for YCCI website following completion of summer internship, supporting dissemination of clinical research resources.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Brain And Cognitive Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
05-2029

High School Diploma -

STEM School Highlands Ranch
Highlands Ranch, CO
05-2025

Timeline

Summer Researcher

Summer Science Program in Biochemistry at Indiana University
06.2024 - 07.2024

Student Researcher

University Of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
03.2023 - 08.2025

Summer Intern

Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
07.2022 - 08.2022

UROP Research at the Wilson Lab

Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Bachelor of Science - Brain And Cognitive Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

High School Diploma -

STEM School Highlands Ranch

Awards

BEST Robotics: Placed 7th in U.S. out of 400+ teams in 2023; ranked 1st in Colorado from 2021-2024

Keynote Speaker at the Colorado Public Health Association's 2024 Culture of Data Conference (with Dr. Nicole Tuitt),  presented to an audience of 170+ professionals

Oral presenter (with Dr. Nicole Tuitt) at the 2024 Society for Prevention Research Conference

Alexander Weiden