Glenna’s background is in protein engineering and mammalian synthetic biology, which she is excited about applying to improve the efficacy of cellular cancer immunotherapies.

Industry positions: Lyell Immunopharma & Outpace Bio

Postdoc: University of Washington (Dustin Maly & David Baker)

Ph.D. Biology, MIT (Amy E. Keating)

B.S. Biochemistry, North Carolina State University

she/her | glenna.foight[at]bcm.edu

CV | Google Scholar | @gwfoight

Graduate student, CPSB program

M.S. Biotechnology, University of Houston Clear-Lake

M.S. Bioinformatics, Gujarat University

B.S. Biochemistry, Gujarat University

bhoomi.bhatt[at]bcm.edu

Graduate student, CPSB program

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University

Jeshua.Malroy[at]bcm.edu

Research technician

B.S. Biochemical Engineering, Technological Institute of Veracruz

pablo.garciadiaz[at]bcm.edu

Graduate student, IY program

M.S. Immunology, National Taiwan University

B.S. Biochemical Science & Technology, National Taiwan University

jenn-yeu.shin[at]bcm.edu

Staff Scientist

Priya’s broad training is in the areas of systems biology, genetics and ex vivo biochemistry. As an experimentalist, she is experienced in integrating reductionist biochemical and genetic with systems-level network approaches to achieve both targeted gene/protein-level and broader contextual understanding of complex interactions that govern distinct tumor responses. She is excited about applying her knowledge and skillset towards deepening our understanding of how the tumor microenvironment drives T-cell dysfunction and exploiting this knowledge to engineer T-cells that resist exhaustion as part of tumor immunotherapy.

Postdoc: ACTREC, Tata Memorial Hospital and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (Advisor: Prasanna Venkatraman)

Ph.D Biology, Tufts University (Advisor: Catherine Freudenreich), USA

M.Sc. Pondicherry University, India

B.Sc. University of Madras, India

Google Scholar

Undergraduate student

Biosciences, Rice University

BCM PREP Scholar

Undergraduate student

Rice University