John Hickey

Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology and Immunology

Bio

John Hickey received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2019, mentored under Dr. Jonathan Schneck and Hai-quan Mao. There he engineered biomaterials to solve challenges facing T cell immunotherapies and was a recipient of the NSF graduate research fellowship, INBT cancer research fellowship, ARCS foundation scholarship, Siebel scholar award, and Young Investigators' Day award. Dr. Hickey is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Garry Nolan's lab and comes with an interest in technology development that can provide systems-level data to immune responses.

Honors & Awards

ACS Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Cancer Society (2020)
Young Investigators' Day Hans J. Prochaska Award, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2019)
Siebel Scholar, Siebel Foundation (2018)
JCM Foundation ARCS Scholar, ARCS Foundation (2017)
Teaching Shark Tank Award, Center for Educational Resources (2016)
NSF Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation (2015)
NIH Cancer Nanotechnology Predoctoral Fellow, JHU Institute for Nanobiotechnology (2014)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

Member, Biomedical Engineering Society (2017 - Present)

Professional Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University (2019)
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering (2019)
BS, Brigham Young University, Chemical Engineering (2013)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

I am interested in engineering and using tools which can capture the complex interactions of the immune system more holistically. Understanding the immune system at a systems level will be even more critical as we try to engineer it for therapy. This will enable unique innovations in therapies overcoming several challenges of current immunotherapies: (1) ineffective for a large subset of patients, (2) non-specific, causing immunocompromised or autoimmune states, (3) costly, (4) not well modeled or predicted by in vitro tests and animal models, and (5) treat symptoms rather than cure disease.

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