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Josef
BA Cornell University
1+ Years Tutoring

Josef's undergraduate teaching assistant work in introductory biochemistry at Cornell gave him a front-row seat to the exact moments biology students stumble — particularly when topics like metabolism, enzyme function, or gene expression shift from descriptive to mechanistic. His dual science degrees and deep comfort with the chemistry underlying living systems mean he can anchor a concept like signal transduction in its molecular details without losing the biological big picture. Rated 5.0 by students.

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Zosia
BA Yale University
4+ Years Tutoring

Zosia's chemistry degree from Yale means she learned biology through its molecular underpinnings — organic reaction mechanisms, chemical equilibria, thermodynamics — which gives her a distinctive angle on topics like enzyme function, metabolic regulation, and signal transduction that pure biology majors sometimes treat as black boxes. Her additional coursework spanning cell biology, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and plant biology rounds out that chemical lens with the ecological and organismal perspective students need for a complete picture. Rated 4.9 by students.

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Garrett
BA University of Pennsylvania
14+ Years Tutoring

Three biology-adjacent degrees give Garrett an unusual breadth — he's studied the subject from general principles through the organic chemistry and physiology that sit alongside it, which means he can explain how a concept like enzyme kinetics connects to both the chemistry driving it and the body systems it regulates. That cross-disciplinary fluency is especially useful for students who understand individual facts but struggle to see how cellular processes, organ systems, and biochemical reactions fit into one coherent picture.

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Tony
BA Yale University
1+ Years Tutoring

Tony earned his biology degree at Yale and is headed to Columbia's medical school, so he's spent years immersed in everything from molecular genetics to ecological systems. He breaks down dense material — signal transduction pathways, Mendelian inheritance, cellular respiration — by linking each concept to a bigger biological story rather than treating them as isolated facts.

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Ayako
BA Trinity College Dublin
6+ Years Tutoring

An English major might seem like an unusual fit for biology, but Ayako's well-rounded academic profile — including SAT Subject Test prep in Biology E/M — means she's comfortable breaking down topics like ecology, evolution, and cellular processes for high school students who need concepts explained clearly rather than clinically. Her 5.0 rating speaks to a teaching style that translates dense scientific vocabulary into language that actually sticks.

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Judah
BA Washington University in St. Louis
10+ Years Tutoring

Judah is a biology major at Washington University in St. Louis on a pre-med track, which means he's currently immersed in the subject at the college level while the introductory material — ecology, genetics, cell structure — is still fresh enough to teach clearly. His 1580 SAT reflects sharp reading and analytical skills that translate well to biology's demand for interpreting experiments, parsing dense passages, and connecting cause to effect across biological systems.

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Kelly
PhD Cornell University • BA Cornell University
1+ Years Tutoring

Few biology tutors have studied living systems from the molecular scale all the way up to tissue engineering. Kelly's research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering on cancer cell biology, combined with her biomedical engineering work at Tufts, means she can walk through everything from mitosis and gene expression to ecology and evolution with genuine depth. She's rated 5.0 by students.

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Micah
BA Washington University in St. Louis • Degree in Biology Washington University in St. Louis
1+ Years Tutoring

Micah earned his biology degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he spent years immersed in everything from molecular genetics to ecology and evolutionary theory. That depth means he can unpack dense topics like cellular respiration pathways or Mendelian inheritance patterns and make them feel logical rather than like a wall of vocabulary to memorize.

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Matthew
BA Washington University in St. Louis
1+ Years Tutoring

Most biology tutors learned the subject from lectures; Matthew learned it by running experiments in a Columbia immunology lab studying breast cancer. That research background means he can explain cellular respiration, immune response pathways, and gene expression not as isolated facts but as interconnected systems — the way working scientists actually think about them.

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Sarah
BA Vanderbilt University
8+ Years Tutoring

Pre-dental coursework at Vanderbilt means Sarah has gone deep on the biology that underpins oral and systemic health — topics like cell differentiation, tissue structure, and how metabolic processes connect to real physiological outcomes. She's especially effective at turning dense material like cellular respiration or genetic expression into step-by-step logic that sticks for exams. Rated 5.0 by students.

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Ryan
MS Stanford University • BA Stanford University
9+ Years Tutoring

Between earning two Stanford biology degrees and conducting synthetic biology research at NASA, Ryan has lived this subject from introductory cell biology through advanced molecular genetics. He now brings a medical student's perspective to topics like signal transduction, gene expression, and metabolism — explaining not just what happens in a pathway but why it matters clinically.

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Rachelle
BA University of California Los Angeles
1+ Years Tutoring

A UCLA physiology degree means Rachelle didn't just study biology — she lived in it, from cellular respiration pathways to organ-system integration. She unpacks dense topics like DNA replication, Mendelian genetics, and enzyme kinetics by tying each concept back to how the body actually functions, which makes the material far easier to retain.

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Sarah
BA Columbia University in the City of New York
4+ Years Tutoring

As a neuroscience major at Columbia, Sarah lives inside biology every day — from cellular signaling pathways to genetics to the molecular machinery of the nervous system. She unpacks dense topics like DNA replication, enzyme kinetics, and membrane transport by connecting them to real physiological processes students can visualize and remember.

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Anni
BA Cornell University
14+ Years Tutoring

Anni's triple undergraduate focus — biological sciences, nutritional sciences, and cognitive sciences — means she's studied living systems from three distinct angles, which is unusually helpful when a student needs to see how a concept like cellular metabolism connects to both brain function and whole-body nutrition. Her biomedical sciences graduate work and medical school training deepened that range into the kind of fluency where she can teach everything from introductory genetics to upper-level microbiology without flattening the details.

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Daniel
BA University of Pennsylvania
10+ Years Tutoring

Daniel's neuroscience degree at Penn is built on a deep foundation of biology — from cellular respiration and DNA replication up through ecology and evolutionary theory. He explains processes like mitosis or protein synthesis by tracing the logic of each step, so students retain the material instead of cramming and forgetting. Rated 5.0 across his students.

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Laura
BA Princeton University
1+ Years Tutoring

Two years as a pre-med molecular biology major at Princeton gave Laura a thorough grounding in biology from the cellular level up — membrane transport, gene expression, metabolic pathways, and ecological systems. She pivoted to history and finance, but that scientific training stuck, and she unpacks complex biological processes by tracing cause-and-effect chains rather than asking students to memorize isolated facts.

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Katherine
BA University of California-Berkeley
15+ Years Tutoring

Katherine's strength in biology comes from an unexpected angle — her arts background trained her to recognize patterns and structures, skills that translate directly when untangling topics like classification systems, ecological relationships, or the logic of inheritance. She teaches concepts like natural selection or energy flow through ecosystems by building clear visual and narrative frameworks that make the material easier to retain and apply on tests.

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Marcus
BA Yale University
14+ Years Tutoring

Research at the Hospital for Special Surgery has Marcus working with biological systems hands-on — the kind of daily exposure that turns textbook topics like tissue biology, cellular repair, and musculoskeletal physiology into something concrete and intuitive. His pre-med coursework at Yale, plus a 33 ACT, gave him the foundational depth to teach everything from genetics to organ-system interactions, and his background tutoring organic chemistry means he's practiced at breaking down mechanism-heavy material until it actually sticks.

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Josh
BA University of California-Santa Barbara • Doctor of Medical Dentistry, Dental Medicine University of Pennsylvania
1+ Years Tutoring

Dental school at Penn demands a command of biology that most people don't associate with dentistry — oral histology, microbiology, head-and-neck anatomy, and the physiology of wound healing all build on the same core concepts that show up in high school and college bio courses. Josh's undergraduate biology degree from UC Santa Barbara laid that groundwork, and his favorite territory is the human body itself: anatomy, physiology, and microbiology, where he can tie textbook diagrams to the living systems he studies every day.

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Brandon
BA Washington University in St. Louis
1+ Years Tutoring

Biomedical engineering forced Brandon to learn biology the hard way — not as isolated facts, but as interconnected systems where cell signaling, genetics, and physiology all talk to each other. He breaks down tough concepts like enzyme kinetics and membrane transport by tying them back to how the body actually functions as a whole. Rated 5.0 by students.

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Kaushambi
PhD SUNY College of Optometry • BA University of Calcutta
10+ Years Tutoring

Kaushambi's PhD work in neuroscience sits on top of a zoology degree, which means she built her biology knowledge animal-first — comparative anatomy, organismal physiology, developmental biology — before drilling down into the molecular and cellular layers that graduate research demands. That bottom-up-then-top-down path makes her especially effective at teaching how biological systems are organized across scales, from tissue-level structure to the signaling cascades that control it. Rated 5.0 by students.

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Daniel
BA Columbia University • BA Columbia University in the City of New York
13+ Years Tutoring

Few tutors can teach biology from the perspective of someone actively doing it at the highest level. Daniel is pursuing an MD/PhD at Weill Cornell and Rockefeller, with a PhD focused on genetics and neuroscience, so whether a student is wrestling with Mendelian inheritance, cell signaling cascades, or evolutionary theory, he explains the underlying logic rather than just the vocabulary.

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Jamie
BA PENN. STATE University • Doctor of Medicine, MD Program Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson University
1+ Years Tutoring

Medical school at Jefferson has Jamie applying biology concepts daily in clinical contexts, but what sets his tutoring apart is a knack for analogies — translating abstract processes like signal transduction or gene expression into concrete, real-world comparisons that make the logic stick. His pre-med foundation covers the full sweep from ecology to molecular biology, and he zeroes in on whatever's tripping a student up rather than re-teaching an entire chapter. Rated 4.6 by students.

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Morgan
BA Mcgill University
13+ Years Tutoring

Morgan's strongest academic lanes are math, languages, and writing — but biology overlaps more than you'd expect with the study-skill scaffolding she builds for every subject, especially when the challenge is organizing dense vocabulary and process-heavy material like cell cycles or ecological relationships. She teaches students to build structured reviews that turn sprawling chapters into something they can actually retrieve on test day, which is often the real bottleneck in introductory bio. Rated 4.7 by students.

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Colin
BA Washington University in St. Louis
1+ Years Tutoring

A biology degree from Washington University plus hands-on lab work in immunology and genetics means Colin doesn't just know textbook biology — he's done it. He explains everything from cellular respiration and DNA replication to ecological modeling by tying each concept to the bigger question it answers, which makes dense material far easier to retain.

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Adam
MS Pace University-New York • BA Cornell University
1+ Years Tutoring

Between three science degrees and pre-med prerequisites, Adam has taken biology from introductory ecology through molecular genetics and cell signaling pathways. He explains processes like mitosis, DNA replication, and enzyme kinetics by sketching out each step visually and connecting it to the bigger physiological picture. That depth makes him equally comfortable with a high school student learning Punnett squares or a college student tackling metabolic biochemistry.

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Hali
BA Harvard University
9+ Years Tutoring

Whether the topic is cellular respiration, genetics, or ecology, biology rewards students who can see how systems connect rather than treating each chapter as isolated facts. Hali teaches students to trace cause and effect across levels of organization — from molecules to organisms — so the material sticks long after the exam.

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Kimberly
MS Columbia University in the City of New York • BA Wesleyan University
1+ Years Tutoring

Kimberly's academic path — a psychology and environmental studies degree from Wesleyan plus a public health master's at Columbia — means she's studied biology from the cellular level up through population-level ecology. She unpacks topics like gene expression, metabolic pathways, and disease transmission by tying them to the bigger systems they belong to. That cross-disciplinary perspective makes dense material far more intuitive.

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Alex
BA Columbia University in the City of New York
1+ Years Tutoring

Between his Columbia biology degree, his TA role in a university lab course, and his current biochemistry research at NYU Medical Center, Alex has encountered nearly every core biology topic from multiple angles — cellular respiration, genetics, ecology, molecular signaling. He's especially skilled at connecting mechanisms across units so students see how, say, DNA transcription relates to protein function relates to disease. That integrated view makes studying far more efficient than memorizing chapters in isolation.

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Miguel
BA Harvard University
14+ Years Tutoring

Miguel's academic path through History and Science gave him an unusual angle on biology — he studied living systems alongside the history of how we came to understand them, which means he can explain a concept like natural selection or germ theory with the context that makes it stick. He also teaches microbiology and chemistry, so when a biology topic veers into chemical reactions or microscopic organisms, he doesn't have to wave his hands and move on.

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Jeremy
BA New York University • Juris Doctor, N/A Harvard Law School
1+ Years Tutoring

Jeremy's day job as a clinical research associate in pediatric asthma gives him a working knowledge of cell biology, immunology, and respiratory physiology that he brings directly into tutoring sessions. He connects textbook concepts like signal transduction and gene expression to real clinical scenarios, making abstract processes easier to retain.

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Kristen
BA Duke University
9+ Years Tutoring

Earning a biology degree means Kristen didn't just survey the subject — she went deep into cell signaling, genetics, ecology, and physiology across multiple semesters. She breaks down dense topics like gene expression and membrane transport by connecting each mechanism to a bigger biological story, which makes the details easier to retain.

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Yoni
BA University of Pennsylvania
10+ Years Tutoring

I am a physician in training, living in New York City. I was born and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I lived in both Israel and Denmark growing up. I went to the University of Pennsylvania for college, where I majored in history and completed the pre-med curriculum. I graduated from Penn cum laude and went on to medical school at Tufts University in Boston. I went on to complete my internship and residency in internal medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. I continue to live in New York and am now completing a fellowship (speciality training) in gastroenterology on Long Island.

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David
BA University of California Los Angeles
7+ Years Tutoring

Learning biology well means building mental models — understanding why the Krebs cycle produces what it does, or how a feedback loop regulates hormone levels, not just labeling a diagram. David connects biological processes to underlying logic, making the subject feel less like rote memorization and more like a system to understand.

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Caleigh
BA Johns Hopkins University
5+ Years Tutoring

Caleigh earned national neuroscience honors at Johns Hopkins and has published research in orthopedics, giving her a depth in biology that stretches well beyond any single textbook chapter. She digs into cellular respiration, genetics, and ecological relationships by connecting each topic to the bigger question of how living systems actually function. Rated 5.0 across her students.

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Elizabeth
BA Tufts University
4+ Years Tutoring

From cell signaling pathways to Mendelian genetics, Elizabeth tackles biology with the depth of someone who built an entire degree around it. Her Tufts biopsychology program covered molecular biology, physiology, and neuroscience, and she now applies that knowledge daily as a first-year medical student at Hofstra. She's especially strong at teaching students to interpret experimental data and think like scientists rather than just memorize vocabulary.

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Rachel
BA Yale College
10+ Years Tutoring

Rachel scored a 1580 on the SAT and earned her biology degree before heading to medical school — a path that forced her to learn topics like gene expression, metabolic regulation, and ecological relationships deeply enough to build on them in clinical coursework. That depth shows when she teaches: instead of walking through a diagram of, say, the lac operon as a series of labels, she explains the regulatory logic so students can predict what happens when conditions change. Rated 5.0 by students.

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Susan
BA New York University
9+ Years Tutoring

NYU's Gallatin program let Susan build a concentration that weaves biology together with chemistry, anthropology, and public health — so when she teaches a topic like ecological relationships or human physiology, she naturally connects it to the broader context of how organisms interact with their environments and each other. Her SAT score of 1570 hints at the analytical rigor she brings to breaking down dense material like cell biology or genetics into clear, logical sequences.

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Leonard
BA Columbia University
1+ Years Tutoring

Leonard's math degree from Columbia might seem like an unusual background for biology, but it gave him a quantitative instinct that pays off when students hit topics like population genetics, enzyme kinetics, or ecological modeling — areas where the math-averse tend to freeze up. He also teaches anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology, so he can connect a concept like cellular respiration to both the equations governing reaction rates and the organ systems that depend on them. Rated 4.8 by students.

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Daniel
BA Virginia Commonwealth University
1+ Years Tutoring

Daniel's strength in biology comes from the same place as his strength in writing — breaking a complex process into a clear, logical sequence that an audience can follow. His tutoring experience spans pre-K through 12th grade, so he knows how to scale explanations of topics like cell division or ecosystems to match exactly where a student is in the curriculum. Rated 4.5 by students.

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New York high schools typically follow the Regents Biology curriculum, covering cell structure and function, genetics, evolution, ecology, and human body systems. Middle school biology introduces foundational concepts like classification, photosynthesis, and heredity. A tutor can help clarify how these topics connect and prepare for Regents exams, which are critical benchmarks for New York students.

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Concepts like protein synthesis, cellular respiration, and DNA replication are hard to visualize without guidance. Tutors use diagrams, animations, physical models, and real-world analogies to make molecular-level processes concrete and understandable. Breaking down these abstract concepts into clear steps helps them stick in long-term memory.

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