🔬 Leader Spotlight! 🔬⁠ ⁠ From advocating for gender justice as a Girl Up Mid-Atlantic club member to making groundbreaking strides in STEAM, Mary Bellakbira is a true changemaker.⁠ ⁠ Now a biotechnology and biomedical engineering student at Cornell University, Mary is starting a new chapter as an incoming undergraduate researcher in the Zhou Lab at Harvard Medical School + Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. ⁠ ⁠ Her research will focus on engineering cell surfaces and developing innovative technologies to better understand cell signaling pathways—work that aims to advance cancer therapeutics and address metabolic disorders.⁠ ⁠ She’s not just breaking barriers—she’s redefining them. #WomenInSTEM