Student Steering Committee

I am a fourth year ChemBio student in Tim Mitchison’s lab working on developing a small molecule inhibitor of an enzyme. I am originally from a small town in CT, called Ellington, though we often called it Smellington as we have a lot of cows (and manure). Before coming to Harvard, I studied chemistry at Bucknell and ran on the cross country and track teams there. My research centers on finding a small molecule inhibitor of a kinase implicated in brain cancer. My project started with various screening approaches and has led to structure-guided design of inhibitors and various in vitro enzyme assays. It is a fun project as I get to learn the basics of drug discovery and collaborate with experts across the drug discovery pipeline.

I am a second-year Systems Biology student in the Eliezer Van Allen lab, where I study the tumor microenvironment in renal cell carcinoma using single-cell and spatial technologies. Originally from Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, I moved to the U.S. for my undergraduate studies at UC Santa Cruz, majoring in biology and bioinformatics. After graduation, I spent two years researching in a pediatric leukemia lab at UCSF. My current project focuses on understanding the role of immune cells within the tumor microenvironment of patients with various mutations and resistance mechanisms to immunotherapy. 

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