Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor in Surgery
·
2021 - Present
Surgery, Surgical Sciences,
Surgery
Recent Publications
Clinical impact of concurrent autologous adoptive T cells immunotherapy in active COVID-19 infected cancer patients for chemotherapy.
Journal Article Infect Agent Cancer · April 9, 2025 BACKGROUND: The concurrent presence of COVID-19 infection in advanced cancer patients has increased the mortality since the compromised immunity was inevitably worsen. The role and clinical impact of autologous adoptive T cell immunotherapy (ACT) designed ... Full text Link to item CiteVaccines targeting ESR1 activating mutations elicit anti-tumor immune responses and suppress estrogen signaling in therapy resistant ER+ breast cancer.
Journal Article Hum Vaccin Immunother · December 31, 2024 ER+ breast cancers (BC) are characterized by the elevated expression and signaling of estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1), which renders them sensitive to anti-endocrine therapy. While these therapies are clinically effective, prolonged treatment inevitably res ... Full text Link to item CiteClinical trials of self-replicating RNA-based cancer vaccines.
Journal Article Cancer Gene Ther · June 2023 Therapeutic cancer vaccines, designed to activate immune effectors against tumor antigens, utilize a number of different platforms for antigen delivery. Among these are messenger RNAs (mRNA), successfully deployed in some prophylactic SARS-CoV2 vaccines. T ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Single Cell and Spatial Analysis of Lethal Breast Cancers
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2024 - 2028Beyond PD1: An immunotherapeutic strategy to stimulate and enable both T-cell and B-cell responses in immunosuppressive and non-mutated metastatic breast cancer
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2020 - 2026Therapeutic targeting of breast cancer and host immune responses at inflection points in the disease trajectory
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2021 - 2025View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Florida ·
1997
Ph.D.