Riya Mohan is a member of the Class of 2024 in the Trinity School at Duke University. She is pursuing a self-designed Program II major titled “Ethical and Regulatory Issues of Human Genome Editing”. Her research interests lie in the realm of health policy with a focus on the genetic/genomic sciences and she hopes to use interdisciplinary education and tools to analyze various issues within the field, such as through wet-lab research, policy development, and community engagement. She is currently an undergraduate researcher at the Heitman Lab in the Duke School of Medicine and has been named a Margolis Health Policy Scholar as well as a Visualizing Cities Lab Fellow. At the University, she is also the president of Duke Ethical Tech, a university based tech think tank, and Duke Cyber, the university’s premier cyber technology and security organization. This summer, Riya will be continuing her work on the Medical Legal Partnership project.
Margolis Internship Program - Work & Deliverables
2021 Intern TedTalk
2021 Summer Research Symposium Presentation