Nana-Agyeman Kusi

Senior at WashU, majoring in Computational Biology and Genomics

Born in Accra, Ghana, Nana moved to Tampa Bay, FL, USA when she was 5 to attend school, while spending all of her breaks and summers with her family in Ghana 

Alma mater: Academy at the Lakes, Land O’Lakes, FL

Here at WashU, Nana works in the Lopéz-Gordon lab, studying phenotypic plasticity as a function of diet quality in the Trinidadian guppy

Nana was an executive board member of the African Students’ Association (check out their cultural expo this month!)

She is also a member of the Minority Association of Rising Scientists (MARS) and Girls Who Code WashU, and  serves on the Biology Inclusion Committee

After graduation, Nana will be a post-bac Cancer Research Training Fellow at the NIH, then plans to earn her MD/PhD studying treatment-resistant breast cancers

Nana loves cooking, film photography and is traditionally trained in Ghanaian dance