Manuel Rivas is a biomedical data scientist and an assistant professor at Stanford University who builds statistical models and computational tools to uncover the roots of disease. But back in the summer of 2003, he was a high school student learning basic concepts of genomics that are now essential to his research. That summer, Rivas joined other rising high school seniors in the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) program at MIT, through which he participated in the Broad’s genomics elective course with guidance from Broad scientist Carrie Cibulskis.
