2022 Fellow – Tatyana Dobreva

Before getting her hands dirty in the messy world of biology, Tatyana was pursuing her dream of becoming an astronaut. After completing her degree in electrical engineering, she worked as a signal processing engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Tatyana volunteered her nights and weekends doing research at Caltech in neuroprosthetics and viral engineering to get a grasp on how engineering is used to probe and fix biology at its core – the cell. She then pursued her passion full time and got a PhD from Caltech where she got a chance to work on cell engineering, adeno-associated viruses, and single-cell RNA sequencing. Tatyana is now a CEO and a Co-Founder of ImYoo Inc. which is working on using single-cell immune profiling to connect people with similar immune profiles to share their health journeys.