Helen Heo is a fourth-year MD/PhD student at the Duke University School of Medicine. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, she completed her B.S. in Neurobiology and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before spending a year in San Francisco, CA as a SENS Research Foundation Postbaccalaureate Research Fellow at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. She then moved to Durham, NC to pursue her MD/PhD training at Duke. She is completing her PhD in lab of Dr. Cagla Eroglu, where her research focuses on the development and specification of white matter astrocytes.

She has been involved in Duke’s chapter of APAMSA for the past four years, serving as chapter president in 2023-2024. She then served as National Conference Logistics Director for the 2025 National APAMSA Conference at the Duke University School of Medicine. She is looking forward to connecting more with the southeast APAMSA chapters as a Region IV Director!