Asmaa
Asmaa Yousif is an undergraduate student at The Ohio State University. She grew up in Dublin, Ohio and attended Coffman High School. She is in her second year at OSU College of Medicine’s Honors Biomedical Science major while also pursuing a minor in Creative Writing. Asmaa is an ODI Morrill Scholar, a Mount Leadership Society Scholars member, and a volunteer with ClassMates (a student-led tutoring organisation). She loves reading, writing, baking, playing table tennis, hiking, and travelling during her free time. Asmaa currently works as an undergraduate research assistant on the T-cell side of the Akkaya Lab. She looks forward to learning more about and contributing to Dr Billur Akkaya’s work on regulatory T-cells and their vital role in the immune system. She aspires to follow either the MD or MD-PhD track.