Richard "Buz" Cooper Scholars

Jaya Aysola, MD, DTMH, MPH 

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics 

Research Focus: Designing a Decision Support Tool for Cancer Prevention Goal-Setting in Primary Care Patients within Philadelphia County 

Alfred Garfall, MD, MS 

Assistant Professor of Medicine 

Research Focus: Preventing multiple myeloma relapse with immunotherapy against stem-cell antigen Sox2 

Yehoda Martei 

Instructor of Medicine 

Research Focus: Global Oncology and barriers to standard therapy delivery in HIV+ and HIV- breast cancer patients in Botswana 

Michael Mitchell, PhD 

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering 

Research Focus: Cytoplasmic Delivery of IgG and Inhibition of Nuclear Translocation of T-bet in T cells 

Nathan Singh, MD, MS  

Postdoctoral Researcher 

Research Focus: The role of death receptors in chimeric antigen receptor-driven cytotoxicity 

John Wherry, PhD 

Professor and Chair, Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics 

Research Focus: Cytoplasmic Delivery of IgG and Inhibition of Nuclear Translocation of T-bet in T Cells 

Amy Clark, MD, MSCE 

Assistant Professor of Medicine 

Research Focus: 18F-Fluos Thanatrace for prediction of neoadjuvant therapy response in primary breast cancer 

 
Gerald Linette, MD, PhD 

Professor of Medicine 

Research Focus: Preventing multiple myeloma relapse with immunotherapy against stem-cell antigen Sox2 

Elizabeth McDonald, MD, PhD 

Assistant Professor of Radiology 

Research Focus: 18F-Fluor Thanatrace for prediction of neoadjuvant therapy response in primary breast cancer 

Katherine Nathanson, MD 

Professor of Medicine and Genetics 

research Focus: Elucidating the enhancer-target gene connectome in fetal and adult male germ cells 

Andrew Tsourkas, PhD 

Professor of Bioengineering 

Research Focus: Cytoplasmis Delivery of IgG and inhibition of Nuclear Translocation of T-bet in T cells