Jay Daniels

I am in my final year of medical school and am applying to internal medicine residency to pursue a career as a physician-scientist in hematology/oncology.

As an undergraduate, I studied neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. There, I worked in the lab of Mark Wu studying neural circuits regulating complex behaviors in fruit flies.

Currently, I am completing my MD in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. I completed my PhD in the lab of Jaehyuk Choi, where I studied the genetics underlying T cell lymphomas of the skin and leveraged mutations identified in T cells to improve cell therapies.

Following my PhD and prior to returning to medical school, I was the first employee and founding scientist at Moonlight Bio, a biotech company developing enhanced cell therapies to target solid tumors.

I am interested in leveraging human genomics, synthetic biology, and protein engineering to improve immune therapies for cancer.