Welcome to Re: Life 👋 ! I’m Aaryan—a junior at Stanford diving headfirst into a world of virology, philosophy, and mild sleep deprivation. You just stumbled into the weird corner of the internet where I chronicle my life. In each post, I share three brief updates, two quick resources, and one idea to reflect on for the week. Let’s begin.
// Earlier this month, I published my first two research articles in the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) (1,2)! For longtime readers, these papers are the culmination of my two-year adventure to discover new therapeutic viruses in nature.
After four rounds of peer review—and nearly abandoning these papers—all I can convey is nostalgia and relief. Thank you so much to Drs. Paul Bollyky, Jessica Sacher, and Zachary Flamholz for guiding and co-authoring this work with me.
// In a classic case of short-term amnesia, I’m now wrapping up a new paper studying how bacterial viruses behave in lungs with cystic fibrosis. Meanwhile, I’m (quite literally) cooking up a secret project from my home in Los Angeles. I’ll leave you with a picture for now, but more on this to come…
// As my summer at Armata Pharma wraps up, I’m savoring my final marches around LA. Since my last note, I’ve road-tripped across Malibu, witnessed Spain’s world-cup victory while eating streetside tacos, and (finally) laid eyes on Odilon Redon’s sketches at the Getty.
Z Fellows
Earth’s First Synthetic Viruses
Researchers at the Arc Institute have used LLMs to design therapeutic viruses unseen in nature. Shoutout to the Hie Lab and my friend Samuel King, who recently published this work in Science.
Spend a week in San Fransisco. Receive mentorship from founders and engineers. Get $10,000 to build what’s meaningful to you.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on the art of starting anything:
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Work does not begin with motion, but with the will to move.
To start walking, you must first chase down the desire to walk.
Question for the week: how can I notice my will and steer it closer to what’s meaningful?
see you soon,
- aaryan
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