Jake Gadwa

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Sana D. Karam, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Colorado State University-Fort Collins

Enrollment year: 2024

Research summary
Regulatory T cells as mediators of therapeutic resistance in head and neck cancer

Graduate publications
Gadwa J, Yu J, Piper M, Knitz MW, Darragh LB, Olimpo N, Corbo S, Beynor JI, Neupert B, Nguyen AT, Hodgson C, Nguyen D, Abdelazeem KN, Saviola A, Pousse L, Bransi A, Pincha M, Klein C, Amann M, Karam SD. 2025 Divergent response to radio-immunotherapy is defined by intrinsic features of the tumor microenvironment. J Immunother Cancer, 13(1):e010405. PMCID: PMC11749720