KELSEY ZHAO
Award-winning biomedical illustrator and designer.
Making the complex make sense with visual storytelling.
illustration / interactive design / 3D / animation / patient education / clinical education
Award-winning biomedical illustrator and designer.
Making the complex make sense with visual storytelling.
illustration / interactive design / 3D / animation / patient education / clinical education
2025
Autodesk Maya, VMD, ChimeraX, SWISS-MODEL, AlphaFold, Adobe InDesign, Procreate
This spread features novel developments across the fields of prion research and molecular engineering. Prion proteins are typically harmless, but when they misfold, they cause devastating and eventually fatal damage to the brain. Researchers at MIT have developed a little guy that silences the prion gene by adding methyl groups to the DNA. 3D molecular visualization methods and graphic design to make this complex research accessible to more casual readers of magazines like Scientific American.
