Rowan Callahan graduated from Cornell University in 2018 with a major in Biological Engineering. Afterwards, he worked as a research assistant studying the microbiome in the Brito lab at Cornell, and as a research assistant in the Maxson lab studying the epigenetics of cancer. Rowan is mentored by Professor Thuy Ngo. His focus is on computational analysis of cell-free RNA to find genomic signatures of early cancer.