T32 Trainees

Current Trainees

Pre-doctoral

Isabel Breuer

Advised by Kristen Lynch

Project: T cell signaling and cancer

 

Stefan Lundh

Advised by Ben Stanger

Project: The role of TOX in CD4 T cells during chronic LCMV infection

Post-doctoral Trainees

Molly Bunkofske, PhD

Advised by Chris Hunter

Project: CD8+ T cell recognition of Toxoplasma gondii cysts during chronic CNS infection

 

Rumeysa, Biyik-Sit, PhD

Advised by Kai Tan

Project: The role of tumor-associated macrophage (TAM)-derived HB-EGF in high-risk neuroblastoma chemoresistance

 

Sean Callahan, PhD

Advised by Shelley Berger

Project: Metabolic-Epigenetic Axis in Microglia Development and Activity

 

Charles Drummer, PhD

Advised by Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko

Project: Neuroblastoma-specific isoforms of receptor protein tyrosine phosphatases as immunotherapy targets

 

Austin Good, PhD

Advised by Ben Stanger

Project: Mechanisms of PARPi resistance in hrdPDAC

 

Emily Goering, PhD

Advised by Warren Pear

 

Grant Kinsler, PhD

Advised by Arjun Raj

Project:  Probing the functional effects of oncogenes at the single cell level

 

Cordelia McGehee, M.D., PhD

Advised by Sydney Shaffer

 

Shannon McGettigan, PhD

Advised by David Allman

Project: Investigating survival mechanisms in normal and malignant plasma cells.

 

Donn Van Deren, PhD

Advised by Malay Haldar

Project: Exploring the impact of non-CNS tumors on brain immune function

 

 

Recent Past Trainees

Ben Kahn, PhD

Advised by Ben Stanger

Project: The lymph node is an intrinsically tolerant site for metastasis

 

Samantha Kemp, PhD

Advised by Ben Stanger

Project: Using a cancer-on-a-chip approach to study the pancreatic cancer tumor microenvironment 

Current Position: Scientist, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

 

Tatiana Blanchard, PhD

Advised by Beatriz Carreno and Carl June

Project: Translocation induced LOXHD1 is an immunological target for Ewing Sarcoma

Current Position: Co-Founder & CEO Laurel Biotherapeutics

 

Andrew Rech, M.D., PhD

Advised by Carl June

Project: Overcoming barriers for successful CAR T cell therapy in solid tumors.

Current Position: Instructor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University Of Pennsylvania

 

Amber Hamilton, PhD

Advised by Will Bailis

Project: Multiomics to discover and validate immunotherapies in pediatric cancers

 

Kelly Rome, PhD

Advised by Will Bailis

Project:  Elucidating the role of Branched-Chain Amino Acid metabolism in T cell immunity

 

Laura Kim, PhD

Advised by Celeste Simon

Project: Competition for Arginine between HCC tumor and immune cells

 

Nicholas Lesner, PhD

Advised by Celeste Simon

Project: Hepatic Urea Cycle Function in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

 

Khoa Tran, PhD

Advised by Shelley Berger

Project: Investigation of chromatin dynamics underlying cellular senescence.   

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Tufts University

 

Divij Matthew, PhD

Advised by E. John Wherry

Project: Pembrolizumab with delayed Itacitinib pulse for first line treatment of metastatic lung cancer

Current Position: Research Associate of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics

 

Gregory Schwartz, M.D., PhD

Advised by R. Babak Faryabi and Warren Pear

Project: Deconvoluting the hierarchy of single cell communities

Current Position:  VP, Immunology, Immunology BlueRock Therpeutics

 

Neil Sullivan, PhD

Advised by Steven Albelda

Project: Characterization of tumor NK cell subsets from early-stage NSCLC patients 

Current Position: R&D Senior Scientist: Immuno-Oncology

 

Joseph Pereira (Perry), PhD

Advised by Christopher Hunter

Project: PD-L1 –PD-1 interactions limit effector Treg cell populations at homeostasis and during infection 

Current Position: Post-doc, Sharpe Lab, Harvard University 

 

Philip Rommel, PhD

Advised by Carl June

Project: Enhancing tumor infiltration of CAR T cells through the expression of RUNX3

Current Position: Research Associate, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 

Derek Oldridge, M.D., PhD

Advised by E. John Wherry

Project: Spatial profiling of the solid tumor immune microenvironment at single cell resolution

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania