Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine

Jacob Junco is a Senior Staff Scientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he studied mechanisms and novel treatments for skin cancer using mouse models. At Baylor College of Medicine, he is developing novel mouse models to investigate molecular pathways driving B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children with or without Down syndrome (DS), with the goal of improving outcomes by identifying novel targets in childhood ALL.