Chloe Hicks

Chloe is an MD-PhD student from Burlington, North Carolina, who graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Biology and minors in Medical Sociology and English. At Duke, she conducted research in the laboratory of Dr. Sudarshan Rajagopal, where she studied the signaling mechanisms of G protein-coupled receptors and contributed to various projects exploring how different biochemical factors can affect the signaling profile and physiological outcome of GPCR signaling.

After college, Chloe spent a year working in Dr. Iain Fraser’s lab at the National institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as part of the NIH postbaccalaureate research program. She studied canonical and noncanonical regulators of inflammasome signaling and led efforts to develop biosensors for tracking cleavage-activated inflammasome signaling events.

At Yale, Chloe hopes to combine her interests in immunology and signal transduction networks to identify and explore druggable targets involved in immune regulation. In her free time, Chloe enjoys running, reading, and dancing.