Daniel Gaines

Daniel Gaines, a 2017 Vision Fellow, studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Clark University, where he earned his degree in May 2021. After high school, Daniel interned with a Lyme Disease eradication project overseen by Dr. Kevin Esvelt, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other professors and graduate students from MIT and Tufts who are collaborating to develop a population of Lyme disease resistant mice. At the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, during his junior year, Daniel worked with The Vineyard Conservation Society as a member of the 2015-2016 Ban the Bag Initiative committee, which succeeded in banning plastic bags in five of the six Island towns. Daniel was an active member of the high school’s chess club and won third place in the 2016 Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair for ‘Styroads,’ porous plastic sidewalks made from 100% recycled Styrofoam, for which a patent is now pending.