Trevor GrandPre

Building models to understand how self-organizing structures in cells lead to disease

- Sarah Lewin Frasier

FIELD BIOPHYSICS Washington University in St. Louis AGE 35

Trevor GrandPre started college aiming to be a physician, but after volunteering at a hospital he found that the job was a lot less like the TV show House than he had hoped—and he hated the sight of blood.

Now he’s at Washington University in St. Louis, combining physics and biology in the study of biomolecular condensates, self-organizing blobs of RNA and proteins that band together and fall apart to protect cells and help them move, process nutrients, and more.