Sophia Park

Sophia Park joined the Subramaniam Lab as part of the Graduate Program at Scripps in 2015. She worked on elucidating the role of mTOR signaling in both normal brain function as well as in Huntington’s disease. Sophia is from Tucson, Arizona, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Arizona. During her undergraduate research, she explored mechanisms of photoxidative stress in skin as well as autophagy inhibitors as novel anti-melanoma therapeutics, allowing her to develop a passion for cellular signaling. She was awarded an NSF fellowship to work on mechanisms of mTOR regulation while at the Subramaniam Lab.