Over the last two years, Katie Crum, SM ’25 has focused on the design of clinical drug trials, an essential step in ensuring that new treatments are effective and safe. Doing this work in Boston’s health care hub, surrounded by teaching hospitals, was a plus for Crum. “I really liked that the Chan program had a very rigorous focus on study design,” Crum says of the two-year SM-80 program. “I really like working with data ... so it’s sort of tying together my interests in math and statistics and