Graduate Student

Rachel joined the Provenzano group in 2012 as a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering. She graduated with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University where her undergraduate research focused on utilizing soy scaffolds as potential therapies for breast cancer. During this time she also completed an NSF REU at Cornell in Summer 2011, “Engineering Bacterial Nanovesicles as Vaccine Delivery Vehicles" and ran Division I cross country at Northwestern University. Her current research interests focus on tumor-stroma interactions and in particular interactions among various stem cell compartments that influence cancer progression. In conjunction with these studies she is developing strategies to therapeutically target these populations.