I'm a postdoctoral research fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, in the labs of Leonard Zon and Franziska Michor.
Previously, I was a graduate student at MIT in Forest White's lab where I studied the signaling pathways that allow tumor cells to resist kinase inhibitor therapies. My background is in kinase signaling in cancer, drug response measurement & modeling, high-dimensional data analysis & visualization, and mass spec proteomics.
My current research interests include the cellular and evolutionary processes involved in early tumorigenesis.
As a first-gen undergraduate at the University of Connecticut (go Huskies!), I was introduced to oncology and bioinformatics in Pramod Srivastava's lab at the UConn Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, and I interned at NIH in Mark Knepper's lab where I worked on new integrative methods to identify microproteins in renal tissue. During graduate school I taught mathematical modeling of biochemical systems to MIT undergrads, and I interned at BioNTech US where I contributed to immuno-oncology efforts on the computational biology team. My current work is supported by a fellowship from the Department of Data Science and the Center for Cancer Evolution at Dana-Farber, and I am affiliated with the departments of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Biostatistics at Harvard University.