Join us in welcoming the newest addition to the Satpathy Laboratory – Vivien. Vivien pursued her PhD training in the lab of Emile Voest at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, where she dissected personalized tumor immune cell interactions using patient derived tumor organoids. Next to understanding autologous T cell responses, her PhD work focused on the anti-tumor role of immune cells outside of the adaptive immune system, such as gamma delta T cells and NK cells. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Satpathy lab, Vivien will pursue her fascination with the complex interplay of tumor and immune cells and apply her cancer biology background from her bachelor and master studies in biochemistry to study cellular responses to cancer immunotherapy, specifically identifying immune cell crosstalk relevant for effective tumor recognition and elimination.