Conor Messer

Conor Messer, from Denver, Colorado, is pursuing a master’s degree in biomedical informatics at Stanford School of Medicine and a master's degree in public policy at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. He graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University with a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering and minors in computer science and vocal performance. Conor aspires to harness data to achieve more equitable health outcomes by changing how it is collected and utilized, both in research and in the clinic. While at Northeastern, Conor worked at Stryker and Liberating Technologies, prototyping and testing medical devices, and taught English in Amman, Jordan. After graduation, he researched surgical robotics in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and then joined the Getz Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he investigated drug resistance in cancer. He was a Northeastern University Scholar, received a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant, and was awarded a Fulbright Student Research Fellowship.