Ben earned his BA in Neuroscience from Dartmouth in 2022. Prior to joining the Biocuration Core, Ben completed an NIH summer internship at the NIEHS studying the CA2 region of the hippocampus. Ben has also volunteered as a research assistant at UNC for a clinical lab investigating the long-term physical and mental health outcomes of sexual assault in a cohort of sexual assault survivors. Ben is also a licensed EMT and has worked as an EMT in North Carolina, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Ben is currently a junior Biocurator for the Clinical Genomic (ClinGen) Resource involved in curating gene-disease relationships for inborn errors of metabolism. He is involved in variant curation for severe combined immuno-deficiencies and platelet disorders. Outside of the lab, Ben loves to play soccer, tennis, and frisbee golf, and is a big fan of the Detroit Lions.
Benjamin McLean, B.A.
