Home Department: Urology
Faculty Advisor: James Brooks
Talk Title: Exploiting Siglec-7/9 immune checkpoints in prostate cancer
Event: AAI Annual Meeting 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Siglec-7/9 are novel immune checkpoints for prostate cancer
Event: IMMUNOLOGY2023 - Ru received an AAI abstract trainee award.
Dr. Roxana Daneshjou studied Bioengineering at Rice University before matriculating to Stanford School of Medicine where she completed her MD and a PhD in Genetics with Dr. Russ Altman as part of the medical scientist training program. She completed dermatology residency at Stanford as part of the research track and completed a postdoc in Biomedical Data Science with Dr. James Zou.
Dr. Rosa Bacchetta's professional goal as a pediatrician specializing in immunology, has been to challenge the limits of "inexplicable" and "untreatable" diseases, and apply current scientific knowledge to understand the mechanisms of impaired cellular immune function underlying the clinical manifestations in order to develop curative treatments.
Home Department: Mathematics
Mentor: Jill Helms (Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery)
Dr. Rongxin Fang received his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at UC San Diego, where he was advised by Bing Ren (2015-2019). During this time, he developed high-throughput genomic technologies and computational tools to map the structure and activity of the mammalian genome at a large scale with single-cell resolution.
