Johanna Mettler is joining the laboratory as a visiting scholar. Johanna is a veterinary medical student in Brazil and will complete her 5-month research internship at UIUC studying a novel mRNA-based cancer vaccine strategy.
The laboratory welcomes Uma Iyer, a UIUC undergraduate student in the biochemistry program. Uma will focus on optimizing canine neutrophil isolation procedures and their modulation ex vivo.
The laboratory also welcomes Dr. Paige Weiss, a small animal rotating intern. Dr. Weiss will establish our institutional workflow to fabricate personalized 3D printed devices that will allow us to collect minimally invasive brain tumor biopsies in dogs.