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Jessica Santana

Postgraduate Associate
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Postgraduate Associate

Biography

Jessica is currently pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Yale. She
received her B.Sc in Biomedical Sciences from the Universidade Estadual
de Santa Cruz (UESC), Brazil, with further research experience from
McGill University, Canada, and Harvard School of Public Health, USA
through the Science Without Borders Scholarship Program. Upon graduating
from UESC, she received her fully funded master’s degree in Biomedical
Sciences with a focus on cancer development and immune responses from
Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands. She concluded her program at the
Department of Immunobiology at Yale University. She worked as a
Postgraduate Research Associate at the Department of Radiology and
Biomedical Imaging, where she optimized animal models of liver cancer
for molecular characterization of the tumor microenvironment to
loco-regional therapies from an imaging perspective.

Appointments

Education & Training

MSc
Radboud Universiteit, Biomedical Sciences (2019)
BSc
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC), Biomedical Sciences (2016)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Jessica Santana's published research.

Publications

2022

2021

2020

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Women in Molecular Imaging Network (WIMIN) Scholar Award

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