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Jack P

- Research Program Mentor

PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)

Expertise

Immunology, biomedical engineering,

Bio

Hi! I'm Jack. I'm a 5th year Bioengineering PhD student at Upenn and my research is in cancer immunology. My main research projects are finding cancer-specific T cells in patient tumors and benchmarking single cell technologies. In my free time I love to be active. I love running, working out, and taking my dog Cody on walks and hikes. I also like exploring the city with friends.

Project ideas

Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.

The alphabet soup of immunology

Immunology is an alphabet soup of markers. CD3, CD4, CD8, CD19, CCR7, CD45RA, etc. are all common markers used to identify certain immune cells in flow cytometry. Together we will learn how to analyze primary research articles and how to put together a literature review on immune cell subsets and the accepted markers that define them.

The future of cancer treatments

First generation cancer treatments were largely chemotherapies that targeted DNA replication as cancerous cells were replicating more frequently than healthy. In recent decades, new generation cancer therapies have become more targeted using protein markers identified to be presented on the tumor surface or the infusion of cellular therapies. Together we will learn how to write a literature review on the history of cancer treatments, the present standard of care, and the therapies of the future and the hurdles involved.

Coding skills

python, MATLAB, R, bash

Languages I know

Spanish, conversational

Teaching experience

I was a teaching assistant for a general chemistry course and lab component. I was also an academic tutor for two years for general undergraduate biology and chemistry.

Credentials

Work experience

Covance (2018 - 2019)
Study Technician Intern

Education

University of Wisconsin
BS Bachelor of Science (2019)
Biochemistry
University of Texas Austin (UT Austin)
BSE Bachelor of Science in Engineering (2020)
Biomedical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Cancer immunology

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