Dosh Whye has always wanted to make peoples’ lives better, but he never imagined that tending to stem cells in a lab seven days a week would be the way he would do it. Now, as an assistant director of the Human Neuron Core in the Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center at Boston Children’s, Whye uses human stem cells to develop new models of neurological conditions that help researchers work towards treatments.
“I want to have an impact on peoples’ lives, and I think contributing to research that supports human health and disease has a lot of benefit,” explains Whye.
Whye wanted to be a medical doctor when he first got to college, but after getting a taste for research, he dove into lab work and never left. After graduating from Boston College, where he played football with Atlanta Falcons legend Matt Ryan, he worked at a children’s hospital and used stem cells to study pediatric neuromuscular disorders.
Since then, Whye has held academic and industry positions using stem cells to investigate possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), diabetes, and epilepsy.
