Olivia Turk

Olivia Turk is a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Engineering department. She is co-advised by Dr. James Hansen and Dr. Jiangbing Zhou. Her research is focused on discovering ways to redesign and deploy cell-penetrating SLE autoantibodies as novel bioengineering reagents for the therapy of malignant and non-malignant diseases, including a novel anti-DNA antibody-gold nanoparticle approach to enhance the efficacy and safety of laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) in the management of brain tumors and/or radiation necrosis.