Alan Cooper

Alan is an MD-PhD student from Long Island, New York, and completed his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago. There, he took coursework in cancer biology, immunology, and bioinformatics and later developed an interest in data science. He joined the lab of Dr. Justin Kline at the start of 2020 and stayed on as a research technician until the summer of 2024. In the lab, he analyzed gene expression and mutational data from patients with B cell lymphoma; his work has focused on B cell receptor signaling, the lymphoma microenvironment, and cellular therapy. His research interests include hematologic malignancies, tumor immunology, genomics, and precision medicine.