Education

Biochemistry, BSc - University of California Los Angeles, 2009

Background

Lisa joined the USC family in 2009 and discovered her interest in cancer immunotherapy while rotating in W. Martin Kast’s lab. The focus of her research is to better prostate cancer immunotherapies with an augmenter ligand, LIGHT, found to attract naïve T cells into tumor microenvironments, manipulate regulatory T cells and induce antigen-specific CD8+ T cells. Her interest includes studying tumor microenvironments and suppressive T cells that dampen the efficacy of cancer vaccines.

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