Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Garry Nolan
Talk Title: Spatial dissection of the tumor microenvironment identifies unique tissue motifs predicting response to checkpoint-inhibitor therapy in advanced Merkel cell carcinoma
Event: German Society of Dermatological Oncology Annual Meeting (ADO) 2024
Home Department: undeclared
Mentor: Eric Gross (Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine)
Dr. Maya Kasowski is a clinical pathologist and assistant professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Genetics (by courtesy) at Stanford. She completed her MD-PhD training at Yale University and her residency training and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University. Dr. Kasowski's experiences as a clinical pathologist and genome scientist have made her passionate about applying cutting-edge technologies to primary patient specimens in order to characterize disease pathologies at the molecular level.
Dr. Maya Mathur is an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University Quantitative Sciences Unit, the principal investigator of the Humane & Sustainable Food Lab, and the Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Open and Reproducible Science. Dr. Mathur is a statistician whose methodological research focuses on advancing methods for causal inference, meta-analysis, replication studies, and sensitivity analysis. Her lab’s empirical research focuses on effective means to reduce global consumption of meat and animal products.
