Marina Santos ’24

Marina Santos
Marina is a senior majoring in Biological Sciences.

This past summer, she worked at the Broad Institute conducting research improving antibody-drug conjugation methods to treat breast cancer. At Wellesley, she studies the genetics of marine microbes in the Biller Lab and the molecular basis of weevil behavior in the Sequeira Lab. Previously, she worked for the MIT Media Lab and the American Lobster Initiative with MIT Sea Grant. She hopes to follow her passion for biology through graduate school in the life sciences and to spend her life helping protect the world's oceans.