Heber Lara

Heber is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington in the department of Immunology. His thesis explores how the small intestine responds to a parasitic helminth infection with a focus on cell differentiation and effector functions. He was born in northern Mexico, but raised in Arizona where he earned his B.S. in Biochemistry.

In his time with CL, he has acted as a mentor through the GSMI program and more recently as a part of the graphic design team. There he has designed newsletter graphics, social media posts and T shirts. Heber is committed to making science- its reasoning, learnings and tools- more accessible and creating a training environment that sustains and supports trainees from under represented backgrounds.