Harvey Fortus

 

Provenance: Hackensack, NJ

Favorite Place: home

How I got into science: In my STEM classes, I really liked learning more about how the world works from a scientific perspective.

Favorite movie: Spider-Man No Way Home

Hobbies: Karaoke, Video Games, Skateboarding

Fun fact: I can play the piano and ukulele

Harvey is majoring in Biological Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Honors College.  He is the recipient of the James Dickson Carr Scholarship.  He graduated Valedictorian from Hackensack High School.  Harvey was a member of the US Academic Decathlon where he represented his high school. He served as a team leader for the Rutgers Honors College Forum Social Innovation Project and is currently the Coordinator for Rutgers Association for Philippine Students.

Harvey is studying the role of mTOR signaling in autism in collaboration with Dr, Harvey Weiss’s lab.

 

Publications:

Paneque, A., Fortus, H., Zheng, J., Werlen, G., and Jacinto, E. The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway: regulation and function, Genes 2023, 14(4),933.