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Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD

Undergraduate university: Emory University, 2017

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Understanding T cells and immunoregulatory networks in GvHD and GvL for the treatment of hematopoietic malignancies.

Key words
graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), graft-versus-leukemia (GvL), JAK-STAT, immune cell trafficking, transplant immunology, CRISPR/Cas9

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: The Microbes Within: Pathogen In-Host Adaptation During Persistent Colonization and Recurrent Infection

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey D. Milbrandt

Thesis Title: Diverse Cell Types Establish a Pathogenic Immune Environment in Peripheral Neuropathy

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Rachel O.L. Wong

Thesis Title: Early Dendritic Development of Zebrafish Retinal Ganglion Cells-an in vivo analysis

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Immunology
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Angioimmune interface in development, tissue regeneration, and cancer

Key words
Cell fate, transcription factors, hematopoiesis, vascular, development, regeneration, stem cells, tumor angiogenesis, tumor immunity

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Alex Holehouse, PhD

Undergraduate university: Korea University, 2025

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Takeshi Egawa

Thesis Title: Regulation of durable adaptive immune response by the c-MYC-AP4 transcriptional cascade

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Lee Ratner

Thesis Title: Regulation of Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Infection and Replication

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Our current research focuses on delineating the cellular, molecular, and metabolic processes involved in the development of fibrotic disorders such as Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and how these metabolic adaptations may in turn be targeted therapeutically for IPF.

Key words
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), metabolic networks, targetable mechanisms driving fibroblast function and fibrosis