Sarah Finton
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Sarah Finton is a second-year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biology from Colgate University. In the summer of 2021, Sarah was a General Surgery Research Non-Employee at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. During her time at MGH, Sarah shadowed Dr. Cristina Ferrone in Division of General & Gastrointestinal Surgery in the operating room and clinical setting. At MGH, Sarah served as the primary author on a paper identifying the prognostic significance of perineural and lympho-vascular invasion in duodenal adenocarcinoma, which was published in Annals of Surgery. Following graduation, she worked as a Research Assistant in Boston, MA at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the Groopman Laboratory, where she synthesized and purified wild-type and mutant proteins for structural identification and drug design via X-ray Crystallography. As a medical student, Sarah has been contributing meaningfully to research in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UCLA. As a cancer survivor herself, Sarah is passionate about ensuring accessible care to underserved communities, and plans to pursue a residency in either medical or radiation oncology.
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