Lab Members

Dr. Micevic completed his MD and PhD degrees at Yale School of Medicine. His doctorate focused on epigenetic changes in melanoma formation and progression with Dr. Marcus Bosenberg. He completed dermatology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital and dermatopathology fellowship. For his post-doctoral work, he joined the lab of Dr. Richard Flavell at the Yale Department of Immunobiology, where he investigated the immune cell populations required for long-term response/anti-tumor memory in the setting of checkpoint inihibitor therapy in melanoma.

In 2024, he joined the Yale School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and the Yale Cancer Center to build a research group focusing on skin immunobiology of melanoma and inflammatory skin diseases and to better understand how individual immune cells orchestrate skin inflammation in benign and malignant conditions. His current work focuses on the immuno-epigenetics in cutaneous melanoma, and developing better treatment modalities for patients with melanoma. As a physician scientist with a strong interest in skin immunology, he sees patients suffering from cutaneous malignancies, and also has a general interest in chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis, alopecia areata and psoriasis.

I am a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center in the laboratory of Dr. Goran Micevic. In close collaboration with the Flavell and Bosenberg groups, my research maps the retroelement landscape of tumor-infiltrating T cells to uncover how epigenetic programs lock T cells into dysfunction within the tumor microenvironment. By targeting these regulatory circuits, my work aims to unlock T cell cytotoxicity, restore anti-cancer immune memory, and engineer durable responses to cancer immunotherapies.

Henna Nam is a third-year MD/PhD student. She grew up near Washington, DC, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 2022. During college, Henna studied chromosome 7 abnormalities in myeloid disease in the lab of Dr. Megan McNerney, volunteered as a patient advocate for survivors of sexual assault, and wrote for her school’s culinary magazine. After college, she explored epigenetic mechanisms of lymphomagenesis at Weill Cornell in the labs of Drs. Ari Melnick and Wendy Beguelin.

Now, at Yale, she is excited to investigate epigenetic mechanisms of anti-tumor immunity in melanoma with Drs. Goran Micevic and Richard Flavell! Outside of the lab, she serves as a graduate affiliate for Pauli Murray College, particularly as helping to run the undergraduate Mellon Forum. In her free time, she can be found cooking, hiking, and knitting, among other hobbies.