Stanford, California, United States
- Mentored by Dr. Michael Lim (Chair of Neurosurgery, Stanford) and Dr. Christina Jackson (Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, UPenn) - Awarded the Stanford MedScholars Research Fellowship and UPenn Guggenheim Family Neurosurgery Scholarship to lead the development of a scRNA-seq atlas of stromal cells in the glioma microenvironment, focusing on how they regulate immunotherapy resistance - Findings presented in an oral presentation at the 2024 AANS annual meeting and currently being prepared for publication - Collaborated on multiple other projects, including how T-cell metabolism and myeloid cell subtypes regulate tumor microenvironment immunosuppression, published in Science, Immunity, Cancer Immunology Research, Oncoimmunology, and Cancers
- Awarded the CRTA fellowship to join the NIH Neuro-Oncology Branch translational immunology and patient outcomes research groups, advised by Dr. Mark Gilbert, Dr. Terri Armstron, and Dr. Orieta Celiku - Developed software tools utilizing unsupervised clustering and network analysis methods to discover predictors of symptom burden in brain tumor patients - Findings and software tools published in first-author publications in Neuro-Oncology Advances, Cancer Medicine, and Bioinformatics, and presented at the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) annual meeting, American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR) annual meeting, AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities, and the NIH Fellows and Young Investigators Colloquium
- Awarded the Fulbright Imperial College London Award, given to one student per year, to pursue an MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical System Biology, during which I conducted three rotation projects - Project 1: Analyzed neuroblastoma patient susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 and the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on neuroblastoma prognosis using gene expression data, advised by Dr. Ximena Montano and Dr. Derek Huntley. Findings published in Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports - Project 2: Developed computational protein structure prediction techniques to identify pathogenic missense variants, advised by Dr. Michael Sternberg - Project 3: Utilized convolutional neural network machine learning to automatically classify cell cycle stage in light microscopy recordings and identify chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells, advised by Dr. Alexis Barr and Dr. Andre Brown - Awarded the Centenary Prize, given to the top-performing student in the MSc program
- Conducted my undergraduate honors thesis research under the mentorship of Dr. Yanmin Yang in the Stanford Department of Neurology - Awarded the Stanford BIO-X Fellowship and Stanford Human Biology Research Exploration Fellowship to characterize the mechanism of action of Nemitin, a newly discovered microtubule organizing protein involved in neurodevelopmental disease - Utilized molecular neuroscience experimental techniques to show that Nemitin is essential for neuronal development, microtubule nucleation, and the pathogenesis of microcephaly - Findings presented as six poster session and an oral thesis presentation to the entire Human Biology department - Awarded the Bernard and Estelle Shuer Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research, given to the top undergraduate neuroscience researcher in Stanford’s Human Biology department