Isobel Fetter

PhD Candidate at UC Santa Cruz in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Santa Cruz, California, United States

About

I am a 6th year PhD candidate in Shaheen Sikandar's lab at UC Santa Cruz, with an expected graduation in December 2026. During graduate school I have studied metastasis-initiating cells and cancer stem cells in breast cancer, working to identify and characterize these small cell populations in heterogeneous breast tumors. I am currently seeking postdoctoral opportunities in translational cancer biology.

Experience

  • University of California, Santa Cruz (5 yrs 11 mos)
    • PHD Candidate
      Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • PHD Graduate Student
      Sep 2020 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Working in Shaheen Sikandar's lab on molecular and cellular mechanisms of metastasis in breast cancer

  • Research Technician II at Massachusetts General Hospital
    Jun 2018 - Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Research technician working in liquid biopsies with Dr. Ryan Corcoran in MGH Cancer Center

  • Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard (1 yr 8 mos)
    • Research Technician II
      Nov 2017 - Jun 2018 · 8 mos

    • Research Technician I
      Nov 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo