Lauren Landau

Lauren grew up in Mountain View, California and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry. At Notre Dame, she conducted research in the lab of Dr. Brian Baker, where she used structural and biochemical approaches to understand the recognition of tumor antigens by T cell receptors and inform cancer immunotherapy. To continue studying the ability of the immune system to drive anti-tumor responses, Lauren joined Dr. Jonathan Kagan’s lab for her Ph.D. work. She hopes to develop chemically-inducible synthetic signaling platforms to rewire tumor-associated macrophages to drive anti-tumor inflammatory responses.