About

Meet our Co-Founder and Executive Director, Alaleh Azhir. Alaleh immigrated from Iran to the US at the age of 14. She majored in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, & Applied Mathematics / Statistics at Johns Hopkins University, where she graduated with a 4.0 GPA. As a Goldwater Scholar, Alaleh has many publications in medicine and genomics in major national and international journals. She has done research at Harvard, MIT, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Johns Hopkins and internationally-renowned institutions in Switzerland. In 2019, Alaleh was selected as one of the 32 students in the United States as a Rhodes Scholar to attend Oxford University, where she is now obtaining her Masters of Science in Statistics. Alaleh will be attending Harvard Medical School’s HST (joined with MIT) program this upcoming year.