Rachel F Madera

Rachel Madera is currently Research Associate/Lab Manager of the Vaccine Immunology Laboratory of Dr. Jishu Shi at Kansas State University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from University of the Philippines and her PhD in Biomedical Sciences - Immunology and Virology Program from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In her PhD thesis, she studied innate sensing of viruses through pattern recognition receptors with focus on RNA as immune modulators or adjuvants. She continued on to pursue adjuvant and vaccine development in the veterinary field at Kansas State University.