BME Students Win NJ Commission on Cancer Research Fellowship

Jake Siebert received a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research (NJCCR) for his project investigating optical nanoprobes as fluorescent reporters of tumor associated immune populations. Jake is a student in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School MD-PhD program. His graduate studies are in Biomedical Engineering in the lab of Dr. Prabhas Moghe. Jake aims to use his immune-targeted nanoprobes for the prediction of breast cancer metastasis and immunotherapy response.

Robert Rosen received a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research (NJCCR) for his project investigating Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy associated toxicities. Robert is a student in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School MD-PhD program. His graduate studies are in Biomedical Engineering in the lab of Dr. Martin Yarmush. Robert aims to identify mechanisms and therapeutics to reduce the burden of cell-based immunotherapy toxicities and improve their safety and accessibility.