Jessica Santana

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.