My work focuses on activating and leveraging the immune system to elicit anti-tumor immunity with a special focus on increasing the efficacy of established immunotherapies.
Studying how cancer cells adapt to and survive under the nutritional context of the tumor microenvironment (TME). Building a multi-omics based metabolic profile of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells under TME nutrient levels.
Science interests: PDAC tumor; whether and which metabolite(s) in TME cause immunosuppression to T cells; Stress response: whether ATF4 is important for cancer growth
