Cancer Biology, Metastasis, tumor-immune crosstalk, Bioinformatics, Cancer System Biology.

MENTORING AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Mentoring (Alumni)

• Master program mentor for Merel van Gogh, University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Current appointment: PhD candidate at University of Zurich.

• Master program Mentor for Tamara Verbeek, University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Current appointment: PhD student at University of Utrecht.

• Mentor for Wenbin Mei, Peking University, China (intern). Current appointment: PhD candidate at Rockefeller University.

• Mentor for Isabella Robles, University of California Berkeley (intern). Current appointment: Stanford University.

• Mentor for Sandhya Kalavacherla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (intern). Current appointment: University of California San Diego.

• Mentor for Stephen Georgiou, University of California Berkeley (intern). Current appointment: University of California San Francisco.

• Mentor for Ankitha Nanjaraj, University of California San Francisco (Research Associated). Current appointment: Sangamo Therapeutics Inc.

Collaborations with biopharmaceutical companies in the USA.

• Company: 3T BIOSCIENCES INC.
Location: South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Dates of collaboration: (12/2020-12/2021).
Role: Scientific advisor in developing new ex-vivo systems for testing next-generation T cell therapies against solid cancers.

• Company: SENTI BIOSCIENCES, INC.
Location: South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Dates of collaboration: (08/2021-Present).
Role: Scientific advisor and collaborator in developing next-generation NK cell therapies for carcinomas.