#  Lisa Situ 

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Karen Cichowski Lab

 

 

 



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Lisa was raised in southern California and graduated *magna cum laude* with highest departmental honors from the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a bachelor's degree in molecular, cell, and developmental biology, with a minor in biomedical research. At UCLA, she spent three years in Dr. Heather Christofk's laboratory, studying viral reprogramming of host metabolism, as a model to identify critical nodes of anabolism that may also be important in cancer. Committed to cancer research, Lisa joined Dr. Karen Cichowski's laboratory, where she now hopes to explore novel therapies for melanoma, focusing on the interplay between mitochondrial dynamics and the Ras signaling pathway.