Clarisse is currently a second year Master’s student in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She moved to Lynn, Massachusetts from Cameroon in the seventh grade. She graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology as a pre-medical student.
As an undergraduate she completed a summer research internship as a CURE scholar at the Dana-Farber/ Harvard Cancer Institute under the mentorship of Dr. Yashika Rustagi, where she worked to optimize a technique for simultaneous co-sequencing of RNA and DNA from the same individual nuclei.