Kristen Pitts
Program: Unspecified
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Undergraduate university: Kenyon College
Research summary
Immunotherapeutics, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, currently lack efficacy against many solid tumors including glioblastoma. Their limited action is in part due to the immunosuppressive features of myeloid cells in the tumor microenvironment and the relative sparsity of lymphocytes. My research seeks to understand the cellular interactions and molecular pathways underpinning immune cold tumor microenvironments to ultimately improve clinical response to therapy.
Graduate publications