Kiarash is a 4th year Cancer Biology PhD candidate at Stanford University School of Medicine. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 with a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology and a minor in Education. Before joining the Cancer Biology program at Stanford, he spent two years studying the neural basis of perception at UC Berkeley. As a Ph.D. student, Kiarash is interested in understanding the interaction of tumor cells and their microenvironment in brain cancer. Outside the lab, Kiarash enjoys running, hiking, and spending time with family and friends.