Shagun Gupta: Where Math Meets Biology

22/10/2025 17 min Episodio 13
Shagun Gupta: Where Math Meets Biology

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What happens when you mix math, biology, and a curiosity about why we age? In this episode, I talk with Shagun Gupta, a Data Scientist at Calico Life Sciences, a biotech company studying the biology behind aging and age-related diseases.
Shagun shares how she discovered her niche at the crossroads of data and biology, what it’s really like to do a PhD, and why it’s okay if your academic journey doesn’t follow a straight line.
If you’ve ever been curious about research, biotech, or how data can unlock secrets of the human body, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
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