Kay Jayachandran

Program: Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Current advisor: Jin Zhang, PhD, MPHS

Undergraduate university: University of Washington, 2018

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Using NGS to understand the role of HPV in cervical cancer treatment and outcomes

Use various next generation sequencing techniques to understand the role of HPV in cervical cancer treatment and outcomes, including RNA sequencing, whole genome sequencing, and single cell RNA sequencing.

Graduate publications
Chen L, Shi V, Wang S, Sun L, Freeman R, Yang J, Inkman MJ, Ghosh S, Ruiz F, Jayachandran K, Huang Y, Luo J, Zhang J, Cosper P, Luke CJ, Spina CS, Grigsby PW, Schwarz JK, Markovina S. 2023 SCCA1/SERPINB3 suppresses antitumor immunity and blunts therapy-induced T cell responses via STAT-dependent chemokine production. J Clin Invest, 133(15)::e163841. PMCID: PMC10378164