Here are some of my projects!
I have worked with the Gladyshev, Boyden, and Tsai labs (last two are ones I am working with currently) on various projects within the bio space.
In my collaboration with these labs, I've published some work:
EngineeringX Substack with my collaborators Dr. Ed Boyden and Claire Wang (https://engineeringx.substack.com/
Khera, N., Raju, R., & Lipton, S. A. (2025). The transcriptional and cellular landscape of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer’s disease. In Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience (Vol. 18, p. 1665802). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2025.1665802
Fossel, M., et al (2024). Aging: How aging works, how we reverse aging, and prospects for curing aging. Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier. (co-authored chapter)
Fossel, M., Bean, J., Khera, N., & Kolonin, M. G. (2022). A Unified Model of Age-Related Cardiovascular Disease. In Biology (Vol. 11, Issue 12, p. 1768). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11121768 (19 citations)
Khera, N., Santesmasses, D., Kerepesi, C., & Gladyshev, V. N. (2021). COVID-19 mortality rate in children is U-shaped. In Aging (Vol. 13, Issue 16, pp. 19954–19962). Impact Journals, LLC. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203442 (25 citations; also cited by the World Health Organization and the Public Health Agency of Sweden in policy reports)
I'm currently working with Cognito Therapeutics on 40Hz stimulation to address Alzheimer's.
In the past, I have interned at Lygenesis, Rubedo Life Sciences and Alio, where I performed biological data analyses, developed websites and created various written deliverables.
I am a Venture Partner for Contrary! As part of this role, I scout and interview founders, organize events for builders, and a lot more.
On my campus, I'm part of the Aging Initiative, which is an org focused on catalyzing collaboration and new ideas in aging research & biotech. As part of my work with them, I'm organizing the NOVA conference, where findings and ideas about brain aging will be showcased by the leaders in the field.
I co-founded Biotein in April of 2019. We are a startup focused on human aging.
Sub-projects:
I'm currently a co-Director of the Harvard chapter of Alzheimer's Buddies, an org that aims to support those who are currently afflicted through one-on-one buddy pairing and connection.
I was also a volunteer author for both Youth STEM Matters and Lifespan.io. I wrote articles on the latest science and tech (both broad and aging-focused). I also have taught martial arts classes to those with special needs at Easterseals.
Read some of my articles in the content section of my website.
I love to run - in the past I've done a half marathon, and am currently working toward another.
I love to "recreationally" code, and am in the top one percent of programmers solving problems on the Project Euler platform. These mathematical challenges are digestible, taking on average a few hours to crack, yet far-reaching, involving research, hacks and much trial and error. I have solved over 120 to date.