Kyle is an MD/PhD student who completed the first two years of medical school at UNC and joined the Cohen Lab through the Department of Pharmacology in 2022. As an undergraduate, he attended Cornell University, where he majored in Biology and Neurobiology and studied the neurocircuitry related to depression and mood disorders in Melissa Warden’s Lab. He then expanded upon his skillset in behavioral and systems neuroscience when he joined the Friedman Lab of Molecular Genetics at the Rockefeller University as a post-baccalaureate research technician. In his two years there, he helped to parse out various neurocircuits related to metabolism, feeding, and thermoregulation using optogenetics, DREADDs, TRAP, iDISCO, and several other techniques. In the Cohen lab, Kyle studies how the dysregulation of glial cells and the neuroinflammatory response can lead to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in both in vitro and in vivo models. While not in the lab or clinic, Kyle enjoys cooking, hiking, powerlifting, basketball, volleyball, and learning new languages.