Instructors, Research Staff, and Affiliates
Kevin Brennan
Title: Instructor
PI: Andrew Gentles
Research interest: The role of lymph nodes in facilitating distant metastasis
Serena Chang
Title: Research Scientist
PI: John Sunwoo
Research Interest: Discovering host biomarkers for cancer immunotherapeutics and current cancer treatments
* 2019-2020 Pilot Project recipient
Chen Chen
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PI: John Sunwoo
Research Interest: Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
David Kung-Chun Chiu
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PI: Edgar Engleman
Research Interest: Studying T cell-myeloid cell interaction in cancer immunotherapy
* 2019 Engleman-Butcher Administrative Supplement
Almudena Espin Perez
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PI: Andrew Gentles
Research Interest: Developing algorithms and novel computational approaches for biological data mining such building advanced methods to analyze genomics data across multiple datasets in the context of cancer initiation and metastasis
* 2019-2020 Pilot Project recipient
Yury Goltsev
Title: Senior Research Scientist
PI: Garry Nolan
Research Interest: Deciphering cellular cross talk implicated in development and performance of immune system
Zinaida Good
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PI: Sylvia Plevritis
Research Interest: Data integration and systems immunology approaches to understand the tumor microenvironment of head and neck cancer
* 2020-2021 Pilot Project recipient
Irene Li
Title: Graduate Student
PI: Sylvia Plevritis
Research Interest: Investigating parallels between the microenvironments of lung cancers and fibrosis with single-cell transcriptomics and imaging methods
Yuanyuan Li
Title: Life Science Research Professional 2
PI: Sylvia Plevritis
Research Interest: Application of multiplexed imaging and mass cytometry in cancer research
Bogdan Luca
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PI: Andrew Gentles
Research interest: Developing computational methods for studying the heterogeneity of tumor microenvironment
* 2019 Gentles Adminstrative Supplement
Uriel Moreno-Nieves
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PI: John Sunwoo
Research Interest: Understanding intratumoral NK cells and ILCs and ways to enhance their efficacy for immunotherapy
Nathan Reticker-Flynn
Title: Basic Life Science Scientist
PI: Edgar Engleman
Research Interest: Systems approaches, genomic tools, and mouse models to interrogate and perturb interactions between the immune system and metastases
Weiruo Zhang
Title: Research Scientist
PI: Sylvia Plevritis
Research Interest: Radiogenomics, biomedical data integration and development of novel computational methods for data analysis in biomedicine
Former Trainees
Michelle Atallah
Title: PhD Candidate, Cancer Biology
PI: Edgar Engleman and Parag Mallick
Research interest: Network analysis of the immune interactome
Pablo Domizi
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PI: Kara Davis
Research Interest: Applying single cell technologies (CyTOF, AbSeq) to identify B-ALL cell subpopulations responsible for driving Antigen loss relapse after CAR-T cells therapies
* 2019 Gentles Administrative Supplement
Astraea Jager
Title: Lab Manager, Life Science Research Professional III
PI: Kara Davis
Research Interest: Mass cytometry analysis of pediatric leukemias to better predict relapse and understand therapy resistance mechanisms, as well as mass cytometry method development
Loukia Karacosta
Title: Research Scientist
PI: Sylvia Plevritis
Research Interest: Identifying EMT-induced mechanisms of drug resistance through single cell analysis of breast and lung cancer heterogeneity
* 2019-2020 Pilot Project recipient
Tyler Risom
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PI: Andrew Gentles
Research Interest: Employing and advancing Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging (MIBI) to characterize the tumor immune microenvironment in solid tumors, discovering new biomarkers of disease progression, and new therapeutic targets to combat cancer
* 2019 Gentles Administrative Supplement
June Ho Shin
Title: Senior Research Associate
PI: John Sunwoo
Research Interest: Understanding how tumor cell heterogeneity affects immune response
Vishal Gautham Venkataraaman
Title: Software Developer
PI: Garry Nolan
Research Interest: Developing algorithms for single-cell analysis – CODEX and data management