Prior Academic Affiliation: Human Biology B.S., UC San Diego
Thesis Mentor: Dr. John Burnett and Dr. John Rossi
Thesis Title: Functional Effects of Exhaustion Gene Knockdown in CAR T-cells
Fellowships, honors, awards etc.: Certificate of Bioscience Management from Keck Graduate Institute
Previous Research/Professional Experiences:
Research Associate I and II at City of Hope 2013-2015
Student Research Assistant at Pfizer 2011-2013
Student Research Assistant at NexBio 2011
Summer Intern at Quest Diagnostics 2009 and 2010
Publications:
Li L, Torres-Coronado M, Gu A, Rao A, Gardner AM, Epps EW, Gonzalez N, Tran CA, Wu X, Wang JH, DiGiusto DL. Enhanced genetic modification of adult growth factor mobilized peripheral blood hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells with rapamycin. Stem Cells Transl Med. 2014 Oct;3(10):1199-208. doi: 10.5966/sctm.2014-0010. Epub 2014 Aug 8. PubMed PMID: 25107584; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4181393.
Gu A, Torres-Coronado M, Tran CA, Vu H, Epps EW, Chung J, Gonzalez N, Blanchard S, DiGiusto DL. Engraftment and lineage potential of adult hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells is compromised following short-term culture in the presence of an aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonist. Hum Gene Ther Methods. 2014 Aug;25(4):221-31. doi: 10.1089/hgtb.2014.043. PubMed PMID: 25003230; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4142829.
Chung J, Scherer LJ, Gu A, Gardner AM, Torres-Coronado M, Epps EW, Digiusto DL, Rossi JJ. Optimized lentiviral vectors for HIV gene therapy: multiplexed expression of small RNAs and inclusion of MGMT(P140K) drug resistance gene. Mol Ther. 2014 May;22(5):952-63. doi: 10.1038/mt.2014.32. Epub 2014 Feb 28. PubMed PMID: 24576853; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4015224.