David M. Rubin, Ph.D., has published short stories, poems, and drawings in After Dinner Conversations, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Café Irreal, The City Key, Corvus, The Ekphrastic Review, ffraid, Ginosko Literary Journal, Last Stanza (Pushcart Nomination for Traumerei), Maudlin House, Moss Piglet, and The Nabokovian. His essays on Nabokov & Keats and Piero della Francesca have been published in The Smart Set, and on Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind in Spinozablue. He also has published scientific articles in Nature, Cell, and other journals, and has lectured on a diverse range of subjects, including protein folding and degradation, natural language processing for structuring the scientific literature, prediction markets, diagnostics & precision medicine, emptiness & impermanence, and Buddhism in ancient India.

David received a B.A. in biology from SUNY Binghamton and a Ph.D. from Temple University. He was awarded National Institutes of Health and American Cancer Society Fellowships to support his research at Harvard Medical School on ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation. He has run companies in New York and Edinburgh, and helped build lifesciences companies in the US, UK, Denmark, Hungary, and India.

He can be found posting about art and film at @Six18sFoundry.bsky.social