Bio


Jeffrey Sagun, B.S., is a REACH Postbaccalaureate Scholar at Stanford Medicine's Department of Dermatology. He was born and raised in Chicago. He received his B.S. in Neuroscience from Trinity College–Hartford in 2021 and was a Posse Foundation Scholar. He then spent three years training at the NIH/NCI as a NIH Academy Enrichment Program Scholar and Postbac CRTA Research Fellow, studying neurological disease in xeroderma pigmentosum patients. He is currently interested in studying the clinical characteristics and genetic causes of rare or complex disease patients.

Honors & Awards


  • Stanford REACH Postbaccalaureate Research Scholar, Stanford University School of Medicine (2024-2025)
  • NIH Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) Fellowship, National Cancer Institute (2022-2024)
  • NIH Clinical Center CEO Innovation Award, National Institutes of Health (2022)
  • NIH Academy Enrichment Program (NAEP) Scholar, National Institutes of Health (2021-2022)
  • NIH Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (2021-2022)
  • Posse Foundation Full-Tuition Leadership Scholarship, Trinity College (2017-2021)