Sean Mahase was born in Canada and grew up in New York City. He graduated from NYU Tandon School of Engineering with a B.S. in Biomolecular Sciences and a minor in psychology. During his undergraduate years, he studied reactive astrocytosis mechanisms in the context of autoimmune demyelination diseases in a neuroscience laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He subsequently earned his medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine with a distinction in research. As a medical student, he participated in a number of research projects, including spending a year at NYU Langone Medical Center investigating hypoxia-induced mechanisms of glioblastoma resistance to treatment. He completed his internship at Northwell Health-Lenox Hill Hospital.”
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