Jessika is a second year MD/PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School with a broad range of research expertise, having worked previously at UC Berkeley and Stanford Medicine. She is primarily interested in computational biology, oncology, and immunology, and runs the Oncology Interest Group at Harvard Medical School.

She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology, focused on Computational Biology and Genomics, and minored in Computer Science and Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was awarded the Florence Moog Fellowship and was a part of the University Scholars Program. There, she worked with Dr. Li Ding, and focused primarily on cancer multi-omics research and better characterizing protein complexes integral to cancer progression. For her research, she has been named a Barry Goldwater Scholar and an Astronaut Scholar, and received the 2019 Palantir Women in Technology Scholarship.

She grew up in the Bay Area in California and enjoys spending free time in nature, choreographing and teaching dance, and trying new cuisines to fuel her inner foodie.

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HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT YOU HOPE TO SEE IN YOUR LIFETIME

Successful preventative treatment approaches to chronic pain

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WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT ARTIS

I can't wait to work alongside the other fellows and the AV community in creating tangible, lasting change.

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RECENT INNOVATION OR DISCOVERY THAT HAS HAD GREATEST IMPACT ON TECH/HEALTH

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