Medical Student
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Jacob Sperber is a third-year medical student at Duke School of Medicine who graduated from Williams College in 2018 where he studied psychology and neuroscience. While at Williams, he completed a neuroscience thesis investigating a novel brain region believed to regulate satiety and shared his passion for cooking with his peers by creating a cooking club. Upon graduating, Jacob was the recipient of a Fulbright Predoctoral Research Grant to Spain to conduct neuroscience research at the Cajal Institute in Madrid. He then spent a year outside academia working in biotechnology, at Kallyope, probing cell populations in the gut-brain axis that modulate physiology. His research interests relate to CNS tumors and lie at the intersection of therapy, palliative care, and innovation. Jacob is particularly excited about applying new technologies from the lab setting to enhance patient outcomes in the field of neurosurgery. Currently, he is involved in work utilizing fluorescent spectroscopy to differentiate tumor from healthy tissue as well as projects analyzing predictive factors that govern outcomes in patients with metastatic spine and metastatic brain cancer.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
8:16 AM – 8:18 AM EST