Jacob Klickstein, MD, PhD

VA Intern

Jacob was born and raised in Boston, MA where most of his family still lives. He went to Tufts University for undergrad where he completed a thesis project on the role of stress hormones in alcohol use in mice and humans. Not sure if he was more interested in research or medicine, he found a job at MGH where he was a clinical research coordinator in the neurology clinic while also investigating the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s disease at the bench. Here, he found a love of both clinical medicine and basic science which led him to join the MSTP back at Tufts University. He completed his dissertation on the role of ALS-related mutations in VCP on lysosome turnover in 2023 and graduated from medical school in 2025. When not in the hospital or lab, he can be found running along the beach or tending to his ever-growing indoor forest.