{"id":2607,"date":"2024-11-13T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/?page_id=2607"},"modified":"2024-11-13T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:03:10","slug":"connie-sommers-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/meeting\/connie-sommers-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie Sommers, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--link_color: var(--awb-custom_color_2);--awb-background-position:left 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style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;\">Connie Sommers, Ph.D.<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:var(--awb-color3);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-paragraph\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-small-visibility\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:var(--awb-color3);\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-small-visibility\"><\/span><p class=\"title-heading-left title-heading-tag\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:uppercase;\">NCI, NIH<\/p><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:var(--awb-color3);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:0px;\"><p>Dr. Connie Sommers obtained her Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. She pioneered the concept of EMT (epithelial-mesenchymal transition) in breast cancer during her time at the NCI Medicine Branch and at Georgetown University. She transitioned to studying developmental immunology in 1994 at NICHD and was a Staff Scientist at NCI for 17 years as an expert on genetic mouse modeling to study T cell signaling. Dr. Sommers joined the IOB in 2017, where she is happy to be able to utilize her backgrounds in cancer research and in basic immunology. Her programmatic research interests include: checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy, adoptive cellular immunotherapies, preclinical models of immunotherapy, canine immunotherapy, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and combination cancer therapies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1338,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2607","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2607\/revisions\/2608"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.strategicresults.com\/synbio24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}