Gino Dettorre is a medical student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis with basic and clinical research interests in hematology-oncology. Having completed a Master of Research degree at Imperial College London with a thesis focusing on validation of biomarkers for predicting severity of COVID-19 in patients with cancer, Gino presented his work at the AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Meeting and the AACR Annual Meeting 2021. He conducts bench research under Dr. Timothy J. Ley, investigating the epigenetics of acute myeloid leukemia, while continuing research on COVID-19 and cancer. He plans to pursue a career as a physician-scientist.