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. He attended Cornell University where he earned a Neurobiology and Behavior degree in 2018. There, he studied in the Lab of Dr. Melissa Warden and researched the neurocircuitry behind mood disorders using mouse models of depression. After graduating, he joined the lab of Dr. Jeffrey Friedman at the Rockefeller University from 2018 to 2020 where he studied how the neurocircuitry governing metabolism, feeding, and thermoregulation can be altered in mouse models of obesity. In the Cohen lab, Kyle studies how HDAC6 contributes to the neuroinflammatory landscape in mouse models of neurodegeneration and how this can lead to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Outside of the lab, Kyle enjoys cooking, powerlifting, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, and chess. Above all, he enjoys raising his three cats — Theo, Toast, and Tank — with his fiancé Katie.