Beatrice Awasthi

Beatrice graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in biological sciences and an M.Eng. in biomedical engineering. At Cornell, she worked in the lab of Dr. David Putnam on the development of vaccine adjuvants. During the summers, she held internships at the biotech company Amgen and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany, studying insulin resistance and its connection to Alzheimer’s disease. Now a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Kevin Haigis at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, she is interested in context-specific substrate phosphorylation by ERK in colorectal and pancreatic cancer.