Jessica Devenport

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Abby M. Green, MD

Undergraduate university: Southeast Missouri State University, 2016

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
Investigating the role of APOBEC3A in tumor progression and clonal evolution

Graduate publications
Fingerman DF, O’Leary DR, Hansen AR, Tran T, Harris BR, DeWeerd RA, Hayer KE, Fan J, Chen E, Tennakoon M, Meroni A, Szeto JH, Devenport J, LaVigne D, Weitzman MD, Shalem O, Bednarski J, Vindigni A, Zhao X, Green AM. 2024 The SMC5/6 complex prevents genotoxicity upon APOBEC3A-mediated replication stress. EMBO J, 43(15):3240-55. PMCID: PMC11294446

Xiang J, Devenport JM, Carter AJ, Staser KW, Kim MY, O’ Neal J, Ritchey JK, Rettig MP, Gao F, Rettig G, Turk R, Lee BH, Cooper ML, DiPersio JF. 2023 An “off-the-shelf” CD2 universal CAR-T therapy for T-cell malignancies. Leukemia, 37(12):2448-56. PMCID: PMC10681896

Kim MY, Jayasinghe R, Devenport JM, Ritchey JK, Rettig MP, O’Neal J, Staser KW, Kennerly KM, Carter AJ, Gao F, Lee BH, Cooper ML, DiPersio JF. 2022 A long-acting interleukin-7, rhIL-7-hyFc, enhances CAR T cell expansion, persistence, and anti-tumor activity. Nat Commun, 13(1):3296. PMCID: PMC9192727