Post-doctoral Fellow

Jesse Boumelha obtained his PhD in 2022 at the Francis Crick Institute in London under the supervision of Professor Julian Downward.

There he studied the role of tumour-intrinsic oncogenic signalling in suppressing anti-tumour immunity and driving immunotherapy resistance in lung adenocarcinoma.

Since joining the Merad lab, he has been interested in understanding the role of myeloid cells in colorectal cancer progression and immunotherapy resistance. He will combine deep molecular profiling of mouse models and patient samples to identify myeloid programs that regulate anti-tumour immunity in colorectal cancer with an aim to identify novel targets that can be leveraged to overcome immunotherapy resistance.

Fun facts about myself:

1. I spend too much of my free time scrolling TikTok

2. I moved to New York to meet Ice Spice

3. I enjoy going to the cinema, especially the IFC Center in Greenwich Village