Benjamin Arya

Benjamin Arya, graduating in the 99.95th percentile nationwide, left his family home in sunny Brisbane to study biology at the University of Melbourne. After a stint as a Chancellor's Scholar at Australia's top medical school and a detour through Silicon Valley's fever dreams, he found himself in a Stanford lab, hunting for the molecular signatures of decay in aging human hearts.

Now at Harvard, he is working to expand the genome engineering toolkit, solve whole-organism gene delivery, and map supernatural variants of genome maintenance machinery.

Some nights, staring at fluorescent chromosomes that carry ten thousand accumulated mutations by age sixty-three, he wonders if he's trying to perfect biology or escape the tyranny of entropy itself.