Student Profiles

Zoë first developed her interest in scientific research under the direction of Dr. Owen McCarty in Oregon Health and Sciences University’s Biomedical Engineering department. Her work focused on quantifying an ex vivo model of occlusive thrombus formation, which she presented at the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (Amsterdam, 2013). As an undergraduate, Zoë conducted four years of research in Dr. Karen Guillemin’s lab in the University of Oregon’s Institute of Molecular Biology. She studied host-microbe interactions in the Drosophila midgut, which formed the basis for her Honors Thesis. After graduating, Zoë joined Dr. Beth Kozel’s Vascular and Matrix Genetics lab at the NIH (NHLBI). She studied patients with atypical deletions of Williams Syndrome and characterized their clinical features.

Zoë will complete her DPhil training under the mentorship of Dr. Neal Young (NIH) and Dr. Bethan Psaila (Oxford). Her project will interrogate the impact of the tumor microenvironment on blood cancer immunotherapies using human bone marrow organoids.