Celeste Diaz Joins the Lab

The lab is excited to welcome Celeste Diaz as the newest member of the lab! She joins us for her PhD research in Cancer Biology, and she will be co-advised with Dr. Livnat Jerby

Before coming to Stanford for her PhD, Celeste was an undergraduate researcher at CSU Stanislaus in Dr. My Lo Thao’s and Dr. Mark Grobner’s lab. She characterized angiogenic gene expression alterations in response to varying levels of cigarette smoke exposure that may enable tumor formation and progression. After obtaining her bachelor’s in Biological Sciences with a minor in Chemistry, Celeste performed research in the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard under the mentorship of Dr. JT Neal. Her work there utilized genome editing tools to create novel models of rare allelic variation and developing single-cell technologies that can assay functional outcomes of these genetic perturbations.

Now, her interests lie in incorporating multi-omic approaches and protein engineering to develop novel therapeutics in the immuno-oncology space.

Welcome, Celeste!