Dr. Ryann Fame, PhD, joined the faculty at Stanford University in 2022. Following her undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry at the College of William & Mary, Dr. Fame completed a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. She conducted postdoctoral fellowships at The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT and at Boston Children’s Hospital Pathology Department.  As a stem cell and developmental molecular biologist, Dr.

Awarded in 2013
Home Department: Biology, MSTP
Faculty Advisors: Hunter Fraser (Biology) and David Stevens (Medicine)

Dr. Sabine Heitzeneder’s research bridges the rational discovery of promising, tumor-restricted target antigens expressed on childhood cancer, that are absent from normal, vital tissue in the body and the robust pre-clinical development of adoptive cellular immunotherapies tailored to these antigens, that are suitable for phase I clinical testing in patients.