About

I am a PGY-2 Resident in Clinical Pathology and member of the Physician Scientist Training Program in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis. My post-doc is a co-mentorship between David DeNardo and Jon Brestoff looking at mitochondrial transfer at the single-cell level.

Prior Training: I received a MD, PhD (2020) and MS (2014) at the University of Iowa. I completed my graduate work in Cancer Biology with Weizhou Zhang with a dissertation entitled, “Big Data Analytics and Cancer Biology: Lessons in taking science from the processor to the patient.” Previous work included a M.S. thesis on Noncanonical Wnt Signaling in breast cancer (see publication) and undergraduate research in diabetic nephropathy (see publication).

Research Interests: My primary interest lies in connecting data science and medicine, specifically in the field of cancer immunology. During my graduate work and in the intervening period before residency, I have been extensively involved in using single-cell RNA-seq to assess immune cell populations in tumor immunity, auto-immunity and lymphoma. I have crafted several pieces of software to this end, both scRepertoire for immune receptor profiling and escape for gene set enrichment analysis in single-cell data. Medically, I am interested in development of processing frameworks for applications in the field of Pathology.

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