Samarth Hegde

Post-doctoral Fellow

Samarth received his Ph.D. in 2019 under Dr. David DeNardo at Washington University in St. Louis, where he worked on T cell immune surveillance dysfunction in pancreatic cancer. In the Merad Lab, Samarth is interested in understanding global immune interactions across different tumor contexts, focusing on dendritic cell dysfunction over tumor progression. He will utilize high-dimensional tools in mouse models and human patient samples to study the impact of tumor microenvironment and cell-intrinsic signaling on the function of proximal myeloid cells.

Fundings : The National Cancer Institute F99/K00 Predoctoral-to-Postdoctoral Transition Fellowship

Fun facts about myself:

1. I went through a beer-brewing phase, misses that phase

2. I could not complete even one spin class (!) and ran away from crossfit (!!)

3. I am frankly unamused by amuse-bouches, but will always say yes to $2 tacos