Amara Seng

Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology

University of Kansas Medical Center

Amara Seng
Amara Seng

Amara Seng graduated summa cum laude from University of Colorado in Boulder with a bachelor's degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. As an undergraduate, she completed a senior honors thesis studying tissue-specific RNA interference in the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. After graduating, she spent a year in the Dr. Scott Alper's Lab at National Jewish Health in Denver, CO as a student researcher, studying the role of vesicular trafficking in the regulation of innate immunity in both C. elegans and mouse macrophages. Amara Seng joined the KUMC MD/PhD program in 2012. Here dissertation work is focused on optimizing engineered regulatory T cells to treat Graft versus Host Disease in the labs of Drs. Thomas Yankee and Mary Markiewicz in the department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology.

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