Mark Polk

I’m a senior research technician in the John Chodera Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where I study protein kinase–small molecule inhibitor binding.

Previously, I performed undergraduate research with Dr. Markus Basan (Harvard Medical School) on microbial starvation physiology and Dr. John Higgins (Massachusetts General Hospital) on sickle hemoglobin solubility. I received my AB in applied mathematics from Harvard College in 2024.

I’m currently applying for PhD programs, with an interest in integrating experimental and computational methods to study molecular biophysics.