Chenyu Zhang

I am passionate about scientific research and my interest is in cancer, stem cells and immunology. This Fall, I will be pursuing my PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, with additional specialized training in the Chemical Biology Graduate Program at University of California, Berkeley. At Lafayette College, I worked with Dr. Robert Kurt on characterizing the early immune response to murine mammary carcinomas for four years. My honors thesis project was focused on investigating the metabolic reprogramming of macrophages in response to murine mammary carcinomas. We used the Seahorse XFp analyzer to obtain real-time metabolic status data of isolated tumor-associated macrophages.