Annabel Shini | Chen

Annabel.Chen ucsf.edu

Assistant Specialist

Education

2024-2025

M.Sc., Biomedical Informatics
New York University

2019-2024

Honors B.Sc., Microbiology and Immunology
University of British Columbia

Research Interests

Integrating cell and molecular engineering, functional genomics, and computational analysis to uncover mechanisms of immune regulation and therapeutic response, with the goal of developing targeted and cell-based therapeutics for onco-immunological diseases

Awards

2024 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Undergraduate Student Research Awards (NSERC USRA)

2023 CRS Andy & Lena Chabot Studentship

Publications

Katsnelson, L., Chen, S., Chen, Z., Xiu, J., Fenyo, D., Bianchi, J., & Davoli, T. "Pan-cancer aneuploidy study reveals common drivers of immune evasion amid profound tissue specificity." Nature Genetics. (Submitted and under peer review).

Kim, J.†, Kovacs, H.†, Parthasarathy, A.†, Chen, S.†, Krishnamoorthy, V., Al-Seragi, M., Zhao, M., Huang, L., Austin Dean, P., Johnson, P., Roskelley, C., Wisnovsky, S. "A genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals cancer-specific regulators of hyaluronan binding and cellular invasion." iScience. (Submitted and under peer review). †These authors contributed equally to this work.