Read a paper without drowning
Find, skim, and actually understand a study — especially the methods — then build a mini literature review you can talk about.
Built by a current Stanford bioengineering student
They say no because they don’t have time to train you.
ResearchRx teaches you the foundational lab and research skills mentors actually want — before you ever ask for a spot. Walk in already speaking the language, and the answer flips to “yes.”
Prescription for getting into research
Learn the lab math no one teaches you.
Read a methods section without drowning.
Keep a notebook a PI actually trusts.
Directions: Complete before your first cold email. Refill as needed.
ResearchRxSigned
Built byStanford Bioengineering · MIT MITES alum
Two tracksWet lab + clinical research
Format6 modules · live cohort · lifetime recordings
The insight the whole thing is built on
What you’ll actually be able to do
The skills mentors don’t have time to teach you.
Dilution mathCell countsReading methodsLab notebooksStudy designPCR basicsSerial dilutionsMolarity
Cold emailsIRB & consentLab etiquetteClinical researchLit reviewsData recordingPI meetingsResearch story
The curriculum
Concrete skills, not vague confidence.
Specificity is what makes a mentor trust you faster. Every module maps to something a PI recognizes on sight.
The lab math no one teaches
Dilutions, molarity, and cell counts, worked until they're automatic. The arithmetic that only ever lives inside a lab.
Speak the bench fluently
For each core method — pipetting, PCR, ELISA, cell culture — what it is, why it's used, the workflow, and what good looks like.
Keep a notebook a PI trusts
Document and organize data the way a working researcher expects, with templates you'll reuse from your first week on.
Wet lab and clinical are different worlds
Different cultures, different entry points — including IRB and consent literacy for clinical and consenting work.
The cold email that gets a reply
Framing that signals you already understand how a lab runs — plus how to prep for the meeting that follows.
Roymara Louissaint
Founder · Stanford Bioengineering
Wet lab & clinical research
Who built this
Built by someone currently doing the work — not just remembering it.
Stanford University · B.S. Bioengineering, current
MIT MITES · alum
Multiple research labs · wet lab & clinical
I didn’t get into research because someone handed me a plan. Across multiple labs — wet lab and clinical, basic science and consenting research — I learned the hard way how to read a paper without drowning, how to design an experiment instead of just running one someone else set up, how to do the math behind the science, and how to keep a lab notebook the way a real researcher expects.
None of that was taught to me directly. I had to piece it together — and I kept noticing the same pattern.
The reason mentors say no isn’t talent. It’s bandwidth. ResearchRx closes that gap before you ever walk in the door. The value isn’t that I started early — it’s that I’ve been through the real trial and error recently, and repeatedly, and I can see exactly what separates a yes from a no.
Now forming · founding cohort
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Founding rate$149$499Reserved for the waitlist · 25 seats
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