I Used to Grow Brain Tumors in a Lab. Now I Think About Databases.

There’s a particular smell in a research hospital corridor at 6 a.m. Antiseptic, coffee, and something indefinably alive. It’s a smell you can’t forget. For years, I spent time in that corridor, pipette in hand, scheduling my entire life around when my cells needed feeding, while also writing R scripts to make sense of the health data those same…