Richard "Buz" Cooper Scholars

Erica L. Carpenter, MBA, PhD 

Assistant Professor of Medicine 

Director, Liquid Biopsy Laboratory, Hematology-Oncology 

Research Focus: Combining non-invasive liquid biopsy and radiomic phenotypes to develop a responder signature for advanced lung cancer patients receiving EGFR-targeted therapy 

Joseph A. Fraietta, PhD 

Assistant Professor of Microbiology 

Director, Solid Tumor, Immunotherapy Laboratory, Center for Advanced Cellular Therapeutics 

Research Focus: Single-cell mapping of the epigenome and CAR-T integration site analysis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia 

Despina Kontos, PhD 

Associate Professor of Radiology 

IBI Senior Fellow 

Research Focus: Combining non-invasive liquid biopsy and radiomic phenotypes to develop a responder signature for advanced lung cancer patients receiving EGFR-targeted therapy  

Kara N. Maxwell, MD, PhD 

Assistant professor of informatics in Biostatics and Epidemiology 

Research Focus:Development of longitudinal patient profiles to facilitate studying the association of common genetic variants with lung cancer outcomes 

Danielle L. Mowery, PhD 

Assistant Professor of Informatics in Biostatics and Epidemiology 

Research Focus: Development of longitudinal patient profiles to facilitate studying the association of common genetic variants with lung cancer outcomes 

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD 

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 

Research Focus: Systematic Analysis of Intron Retention to Aid Neoepitope Discovery. 

Golnaz Vahedu, PhD 

Assistant Professor of Genetics, Penn Institute for Immunology 

Research Focus: Single-cell mapping of the epigenome and CAR-T integration site analysis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia 

Yi Xing, PhD 

Francis West Lewis Chair 

Director, Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine  

Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 

Research Focus: Systematic Analysis of Intron Retention to Aid Neoepitope Discovery