Beilinson and Zakiniaeiz lead world’s only student-run scientific journal

"When Helen Beilinson GRD ’20 was five years old and her mother asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, the young girl responded, “a grad student.” Today, Beilinson is not only a fourth-year graduate student in immunology at Yale, but one of the two editors in chief of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, or YJBM, the only student-run scientific journal in the world. Beilinson had been interested in science communication from a young age — growing up, her mother was a biologist, her father was a mathematician and her older sister conducted scientific research. In high school, Beilinson started cell biology research because she wanted to study viruses and virology, explaining, “I’m interested in how a ball of nucleic acid can cause as much damage as it does.” During her undergraduate education at the University of Chicago, Beilinson joined a virology and immunology lab, and at Yale she continues to study immunology. She said she is interested in how her research connects to other biomedical fields."