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Fellowship Start Year

2023

Status

First Year

Research Topic

Cancer Immunometabolism

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Irma Fernandez

She/Her
Perelman School of Medicine

Bio

Postdoc Appointment

Department
  • Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Penn Faculty Mentor
  • Will Bailis Ph.D.
  • Warren Pear Ph.D.
  • Celeste Simon, Ph.D.

Education

Degrees
  • 2022, Ph.D., Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University
  • 2015, B.S., Pharmacological Chemistry, The University of California, San Diego
  • 2015, B.A., Literatures of the World: English and Spanish, The University of California, San Diego
Disertation Title

Roles for Mitochondrial SIRT5 in Breast Cancer Cells and the Tumor Microenvironment

Research Advisors
  • Hening Lin, Ph.D.
  • Robert Weiss, Ph.D.